Hi. thanks for the info. I doubted the quality of this prog, and development seems to be pretty slow.x -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" 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 >
