Well, that commercial grade package used to be available to us at a very good price. One could raise that issue with them again, certainly. Adam Myrow writes: > I've never played with any of the commercial OCR stuff, so I can't comment > on how good it is, but I can say this with certainty. The free stuff > isn't usable. I'd call it experimental at best, but my experience is, > that neither ocrad nor gocr could recognize a printout from an inkjet > printer without dozens of errors. Of course, there aren't a lot of > programmers who are knowledgeable about how OCR works willing to write free > software, plus, it's a very small market. So, I'm not holding my breath. > I certainly don't understand much about how OCR works, so I don't think > I'd be of much use. It's really a bummer, and the commercial stuff looks > to be a real bear to get working, especially if you happen to use a Linux > distro other than Redhat/Fedora Core. That's my biggest hold-up as well > and why I still have Windows XP. That, and the numerous web pages which > use Java Script in some way just to make sure you are using Microsoft's > browser. Mozilla will hopefully eventually level the playing field here, > but it's proceeding rather slowly. I think the biggest problem is that > most of the big companies want nothing to do with Linux. This ends up > being a mixed blessing. The good part is, most of what you can get for > Linux is free, under the GPL or BSD license, but the draw-back is that > unless you are on an email list like this, people will be totally clueless > about support issues. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
