Well, I felt the ocr quality was vary pore with gocr also known as jocr. Though I am use to scanning with Omnipage 12.0 Pro for Windows so unless it's quality is equal to what profetional ocr engines have my opinion will be biast. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Snow <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:37 PM Subject: Re: ocrxtr recognision software > Just curious, has anyone tried jocr? > http://jocr.sourceforge.net > > > -- > A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Terry Klarich wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
