I messed up. The cost is $250. I was thinking $300 because I purchased the yearly maintenance. Terry On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:26:51 -0500you write: >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 ocrx >tr >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 >> > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
