Ocrxtr is a unix filter program which does no more than take as input a graphical file of many formats and runs optical character recognition on it. It's output is an ascii text. Very simple. One need only to obtain a scanner of their own choosing, install and configure sane. Send the resulting tiff files to ocrxtr. I've used the Kurtzwiel reading edge and Aladen Ambassador for years. This product far exceeds these products capibilities. The product costs $300 if you are blind and using it for home use. There are several add-on's for $50 each. These are mainly for output of specialized formats. However, the one you might be interested in is the pdf input license. This allows you to use ocrxtr to read pdf files. This is superior to pdf2txt because ocrxtr will perform ocr on the graphical areas of a pdf. Terry On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:17:15 -0400 (EDT)you write: >What does this software do? > >-- charlie Crawford. >On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Christopher Moore wrote: > >> Hello listers, >> I recently saw a rave review of the ocrxtr software for linux from someone >> on this list. I looked at the vividata site and couldn't find any prices. >> That is generally a bad sign meaning the price is beyond affordable for an >> individual. If anyone has any idea of prices, I'd be inteerested either on >> or off list. >> >> Thanks >> Chris >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
