We haven't done anything with socrates for a long time. It has no prebuilt binaries and is only available from cvs. There is a gnome package or not a gnome package but a package which runs under gnome called easyocr on sourceforge. I believe they have ubuntu deb files available for it. Maybe someone has the URL handy I don't. I can look it up however if you can't find it. I don't know anything about it's quality or ease of use however. Kirk On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Hart Larry wrote: > Well, I would have asked this on Blinux list, but since Kirk ha developed an > OCR engine, I am asking here. I am on the verge of having my scanner > working, finally. I really don't know which of the scanning engines, gocr, > tesarac, or any others, have the best results? But as important for me, > which one, including any helpful scripts will make the process simpler? When > I was in windows using OpenBook, it was as simple as hitting a space bar to > scan. > When I looked in google, I noticed some1 who was updating cunaform, also a > script called zenity, also, speedy_ocr. Maybe these are not exact spellings > or punctuation, but I suppose some of you know what I am looking for? > As far as Socrates, I can still find commands which maybe did grab it in the > past, but where if anywhere is their a straight download, which would work in > Debian 2.632? > Also, if there are repos I should include, please inform--and-thanks so much > in advance > Hart > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
