2008/7/21 joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Valent Turkovic wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> 2008/7/21 joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>>> >>>>> Does anybody do OCR using software available in Fedora? Which ones do >>>>> you use? How do you use them? >>>>> I saw an article about OCRopus [1] and how great app it is but there >>>>> is no ocropus in fedora currently. >>>>> >>>>> [1] >>>>> >>>>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071024-hands-on-with-googles-ocropus-open-source-scanning-software.html >>>> >>>> I use gocr-0.45-2.fc9.i386 >>>> >>>> I think it comes from the fedora repo. >>> >>> Tesseract is better: >>> >>> yum install tesseract >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> fedora-list mailing list >>> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >>> >> >> Hi Joachim and Paul, >> do gocr and tesseract have GUIs? How are you using them? Do you get >> formated text or just plain text file? Do gocr and tesseract recognise >> colums? Is it possible to get formated OpenOffice Writer document that >> matches the original scanned page? >> >> I read the article I posed the link to about OCRopus and it seams that >> uses tesseract but it somehow improved. >> >> Cheers, >> Valent. >> >> > Hi Valent, > > gocr is ia simple CLI which reads from a file containing text as graphics > and writes only plain text to stdout. > It has no features such as the WIN$ ocr tools. > > -- > Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > I guess that it the strenght of OCRopus because it should have that feature if I'm not mistaken. Unfortunatelly OCRopus is not in Fedore repos so I can't test it. I hope it gets there soon. Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
