Hi, I am glad OCRXTR will work coss Linux platforms. In attempting to get OCR Shopworking with Slack 9 it wasn't working for me, and I've since nuked Slack 9, because it is becoming clear it doesn't fill my needs. ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Klarich <terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: Re: ocrxtr recognision software > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:30:05 -0400you write: > >Most of the Vivadata stuff is directly designed to run on Red Hat and Red > >Hat compatible Linux distros. > >If you can play around with the stuff you might get it work, but Vivadata > >won't garentee non Red hat compatible distros. > > > For ocrxtr, it is nothing more than a unix filter. I think it would run on any release of linux. It does not even know or care > which scanner or driver you are using. You have to install and configure sane. So, any supported sane scanner will work. I have > a Cannon canoscan lide 20. It's a USB scanner. Works fine and runs off the usb power. I can put it in my laptop case and take it > with me. > > Scanshop is not the same product as ocrxtr. In fact, ocrxtr contains a better algritham for ocr than scanshop. > > Terry > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
