I don't know that I'd call it good, but it does exist. And the command line interface works just fine for me. Essentially, I create a directory (if I'm scanning more than a page or two), and use: scanimage to get graphics files and gocr to ocr them. On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Liz Hare wrote: > > Hello, > > Two newbie questions: > > Is there any good OCR software for Linux yet? > > I was trying to inform myself about this by searching the archives of this > list. I found it kind of hard, because I couldn't find any sort of search > function on the archives page-- only several ways to download either the > entire archive. I still don't have Linux up and Both WIndoze machines at > home and at work seem to choke on the large file of all the archives when I > try to download it. Is there somewhere else I should be looking for > searchable archives? > > Thanks, > > > > > Liz Hare, Ph.D. > Research Associate > Animal Breeding and Genetics Group > B47 Morrison Hall > Cornell University > Ithaca, NY 14853 > (607) 255 2380 > eh51 at cornell.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
