Cool. Sonds very good and it's like many other things a mattter of money eh? -- charlie Crawford. 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 >
