ocrxtr recognision software

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Are we talking linux or winblows? for linux if you want ocr chances are
you're gonna have to pay for it.

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Igor Gueths wrote:

> 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?
> >
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