Hi Hart, The kies package I have released has a set of scripts like you describe. It is called kies_p2t for kies_paper to text. It supports multiple OCR engines. Tesseract is good and cuneiform IMHO is the best, also allowing for decolumnization. For 140 euro, one can buy abbyyfinereader, a good commercial engine. You can get kies from: ftp://ftp.csir.co.za/MI/National_Accessibility_Portal/wvdwalt/kies-latest.tar.bz2 HTH, Willem 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 > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
