This looks like it might be a good programming project for me - writing a filter that accepts an image file and produces text. It would be Open Source and free. I could probably use a lot of the code from the JOCR project, but get rid of the graphics interface. I've been looking for a useful and exciting project for a while. Comments? John On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Terry Klarich wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:46:21 -0600you write: > > I am looking for applications that take an image file such as > >from a document scanner or decoded PDF and output ASCII text. > > > > My only other hope is that it works via command line. > > > Hey Martin: > > So, how's it going? > > I specifically use and highly recommend vividata's product. It is not free though. However, it is well worth the money. I think > the licensing fee is about $250 or so. > > It is nothing more than a filter. I use sane to get the scanner image. Sane creates a tiff file. vividata then takes the tiff > file and creates a text file. It is very nice and works well. > > I have 2 scanners. One is a canon lide scan 30. This scanner is small and fits in my laptop bag. It is powered off the usb bus. > The other is a microtek scanmaker 12usl. This scanner is much faster; but, much larger. It scans legal sized documents as well. > I have the best of both worlds now. > > > The product is called ocrxtr. You should go to www.vividata.com. > > Hope this helps. > > Terry > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terry Klarich (KI5ZW) > A man is not complete until he is married; then, he is finished. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list