Hello Terry, Do you know this for a fact? I have been talking to Ralph DeWitt at Vividata in the last few days and at this point they do not have a policy/price to make the xtr ocr package available to blind users. Please DO NOT post Mis-information! It is worse than no information. Stay tuned. We are trying to negotiate a deal with Vividata. I will post here soon when we have it set up. At the moment, you can download the trial software and the manual from: ftp://www.linux-speakup.org/pub/linux/goodies/xtrclilite* If you do, please read/follow the instructions in the manual. You must obtain a license key from Vividata before you can use the software. This is the trial version only. As we know, many sighted people think that we blind people are helpless and require a lot of extra care. Vividata is a bit concerned that if they make the software available to us at a reasonable price for single-users, their tech support department will be overwhelmed with cries for help in installing/running the software. OUr negotiations with Vividata depend on their realizing that we will not be calling them for a lot of hand-holding. So, please, if you download the trial version, READ and FOLLOW the instructions in the manual. It really is quite easy to do. HTH, --terry On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Terry Klarich wrote: > There is a special price for the ocrxtr product for thos of us who are blind. It's around $300. > > Terry > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 07:58:26 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time)you write: > >Hi guys > > Anyone know of a reasonably priced OCR for linux? I took OCR shop > >XTR for an evaluation run and, while I like it, it's price tag is way up > >there--more so than any windows-based OCR at around $2300, $950 for the > >light version. I didn't pay half that for finereader on windows, and I > >think that price tag is just plain ludicrous. I haven't gotten anywhere > >with gocr or ocrad, which are free. Anyone know of any other OCR programs > >for linux? If I could find a good OCR program I could finally trash > >windblows for good. Failing that, I just might have to see how well vmware > >would work and run finereader in that. > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >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 -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: (705) 422-0039 E-mail: terry at wasaga.dyns.net Web: wasaga.dyns.net Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
