hi daniel, I think this is one of the greatest achievements. A few days back some hacker on the orca list had sent me a script for doing ocr. I have some how misplaced it i believe and I would request for another copy. ah, willem was that you who sent me the script? if yes kindly send it again. I have one major question? will any of the tools mentioned in the original post do rotation of the image if I place the page up side down? I think most free ocr softwares can't do it but I will be pleased to know that I am wrong in my analysis. I think we really need a howto from daniel for this. happy hacking. Krishnakant. On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 20:42 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote > Hi All, > > First sorry if you get this a couple of times, I thought I would just > share my experiences with everyone, but if it's not wanted, I won't do > this next time... > > Anyway, I've had great success with ocr on linux. > Using the following packages: > scanimage: - grab the image from the scanner > - kies: Front end for the ocr and scanimage stuff > - Teseract: ocr software > - ocropus: ocr software I believe > > What I did: > Install kies. > next, checkout tesseract from svn and build: > patch -p0 < the_attach-patch.diff > ./configure > make > sudo make install > Note: the patch is required to make it compile. > Next checkout ocropus (r864) from memory. > ./configure > jam > sudo jam install > to compile/install it. > Next run > sudo chmod %s /location/to/scanimage > (note install sane from apt) > sudo scanimage -L > if it finds your scanner do this: > scanimage > imagefile > If it scans it as an image, try the kies front end: > kies_p2t > Press space and wait for your document to open in lynx. > To save it press p from lynx and save it in the usual way... > > Hopefully I didn't miss too much, and I know it's very brief. Let me know > if there is interest in this subject, I'll place a howto on my > website... I'm also going to (if its ok with Willem), generate a diff to > improve the documentation slightly although it's pretty good at the > minute, and the scanimage command he's script uses needed to be modified > on my system... > > So is there interest in a howto for ocr on linux? > > Let me know if you have any questions. I would also like to thank everyone > involved with all the ocr projects, and also sane/scanimage. > And I would also like to thank Willem for all his great help off list! > > So if there are any questions about this or you would like me to write > up a howto let me know... > > Cheers, > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list