This sounds like a great project. Go for it. Martin McCormick "John J. Boyer" writes: >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. San >e 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 > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list