Sounds great. Go for it! Rudy On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:11:32PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list