WORDLIST2DAWG(1)
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NAME
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wordlist2dawg - convert a wordlist to a DAWG for Tesseract

SYNOPSIS
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*wordlist2dawg* 'WORDLIST' 'DAWG' 'lang.unicharset'

*wordlist2dawg* -t 'WORDLIST' 'DAWG' 'lang.unicharset'

*wordlist2dawg* -r 1 'WORDLIST' 'DAWG' 'lang.unicharset'

*wordlist2dawg* -r 2 'WORDLIST' 'DAWG' 'lang.unicharset'

*wordlist2dawg* -l <short> <long> 'WORDLIST' 'DAWG' 'lang.unicharset'

DESCRIPTION
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wordlist2dawg(1) converts a wordlist to a Directed Acyclic Word Graph
(DAWG) for use with Tesseract.  A DAWG is a compressed, space and time
efficient representation of a word list.

OPTIONS
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-t
	Verify that a given dawg file is equivalent to a given wordlist.

-r 1
	Reverse a word if it contains an RTL character.

-r 2
	Reverse all words.

-l <short> <long>
	Produce a file with several dawgs in it, one each for words
	of length <short>, <short+1>,... <long>

ARGUMENTS
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'WORDLIST'
	A plain text file in UTF-8, one word per line.

'DAWG'
	The output DAWG to write.

'lang.unicharset'
	The unicharset of the language. This is the unicharset
	generated by mftraining(1).

SEE ALSO
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tesseract(1), combine_tessdata(1), dawg2wordlist(1)

<https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Training-Tesseract.html>

COPYING
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Copyright \(C) 2006 Google, Inc.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

AUTHOR
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The Tesseract OCR engine was written by Ray Smith and his research groups
at Hewlett Packard (1985-1995) and Google (2006-2018).