The best OCR solution I've found was OCR Shop. However, you require a scsi scanner which OCR Shop supports, and you really do need a Red Hat compatible distro to use OCR Shop. Which is one of the reasons I reject other distros. ----- Original Message ----- From: Igor Gueths <igueths@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 7:19 PM Subject: Re: ocrxtr recognision software > Spekaing of which, can anyone recommend any good ocr pkgs once I get a > scanner? > > May you code in the power of the source, > may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you, > throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch. > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Adam Myrow wrote: > > > I wouldn't suggest jocr AKA gocr for anything except experimentation. I > > can print out a page on my inkjet printer and scan it. If I try to > > recognize it with gocr, the output is mostly underline characters with a > > few words. You can sometimes get the gist of the text with some > > imagination. I have an ancient version of Omnipage PRO under Windows > > which does far better. Granted, there are a lot of options you can pass > > to gocr, but they only seem to make things worse. All the different modes > > seem to make no difference. I would suggest that somebody who understands > > how OCR works could seriously improve the software, but I am not that > > person. I have halfway decent programming skills, but no absolutely > > nothing about how OCR works. BTW, where does one obtain this OCRXTRA > > program? Will it run on Slackware, or is it only functional in Redhat? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
