By the way the URL you gave is wrong, www.sf.net/projects/tesseract-ocr From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:04 PM Subject: OCR on Linux: great news > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just read a review on linux.com about a new open source OCR engine for > Linux. Well, it's not exactly new, but it has recently been open > sourced by none other than Google, HP and UNLV. According to the > review, it's about 97.74% accurate, although it only recognizes tif files > and doesn't yet correctly understand page layouts with more than 1 > column. However these are planned features in future releases. This > app is called tesseract, and can be found at > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract > > HTH somebody, > Lorenzo > - -- > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFHDjUG9IpekrhBfIRAq5PAKDFpBdtnH/47VOxAs9K0ow7HbxtjgCeOgGp > 1ORpTF+O/MpkioCwRBLFn28= > =Kxdp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
