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+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# This file is put in the public domain.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: tesseract 3.00\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: joregan@gmail.com\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2010-07-19 02:54+0100\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:148
+#, c-format
+msgid "Error: Must have a unlv zone file %s to read!\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:187
+#, c-format
+msgid "Error: -l must be arg3, not %d\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:221
+#, c-format
+msgid "Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine %s\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:223
+msgid "with Leptonica"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:225
+msgid "with LibTiff"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:237
+#, c-format
+msgid "Image file %s cannot be opened!\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:248
+#, c-format
+msgid "Error reading file %s!\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:261 api/tesseractmain.cpp:325
+#, c-format
+msgid "Page %d\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:280
+#, c-format
+msgid "File %s cannot be opened!\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:289
+#, c-format
+msgid "Image file %s cannot be read!\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:293
+#, c-format
+msgid "Page %d : %s\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:321
+#, c-format
+msgid "Read of file %s failed\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:349
+#, c-format
+msgid "Read of file %s failed.\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:353
+#, c-format
+msgid "Read of image %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: api/tesseractmain.cpp:370
+#, c-format
+msgid "Cannot create output file %s\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: image/imgtiff.cpp:318
+#, c-format
+msgid "Image has %d * %d bit%c per pixel, and size (%d,%d)\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: image/imgtiff.cpp:333
+#, c-format
+msgid "Resolution=%d\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: image/imgtiff.cpp:421
+#, c-format
+msgid "%d pixels short on line %d"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: image/imgtiff.cpp:422
+#, c-format
+msgid ", unknown code=%x\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: image/imgtiff.cpp:426
+#, c-format
+msgid "Discarding %d bits on line %d\n"
+msgstr ""