The question isn't are they as good as, because there are commercial grade packages available for a commercial grade price. The question may be are there open source tools, where the answer is there are, but not with the kind of front end you're accustomed to from Arkenstone, Kurzweil, etc. Are they as good? Well, define good. Do people use Linux to scan? Yes they do. Are they satisfied with linux for scanning? I know people who are. Does that mean you would be? Totaly different question. Sean McMahon writes: > The only thing that's holding me back from going all the way linux, is OCR. I > know there are linux OCR packages which cost as much as windows equivelents, but > are there any which are free? Are the linux ocr options as good at recognizing > text as those comercially available in windows? > Sean > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
