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From: Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: OCR In Linux
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:07:05 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112021905310.342-100000@abeel.students.cs.uu.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011202015132.I15968@nntp.AegisInfoSys.com>

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Henry Yen wrote:
 > a quick google search turns up at least four:
 >    clara OCR:  www.claraocr.org
Have to check this one again.
 >    GOCR: http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/
Wroks quite fine, but don't expact miracles like tables andso-on.
 >    a commercial OCR with a linux version: www.vividata.com
WAY TOO expansive, besides it's too graphical as well.
And it does all kinds as ROOT which you don't have control voer, so I don't
like it.

 >    a commercial OCR with a linux version: www.mentalix.com
Never heard of.

 > > When I boot my Redhat Linux, it says it is initializing the USB controller.
 > > I have a USB scanner. Can't remember the name now, but is there a chance
 > > that I could find drivers for it?
 > 
 > try SANE (Scanning Access Now Easy): http://www.mostang.com/sane
Great program.
 >   (note: site is down at this time due to @home belly-up)
 >   (note: SANE is shipped with most modern linux distributions)
 > 
 > another quick google search turns up one possible USB scanner resource page:
 >    http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html
 > 
 > 

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 John J. Boyer
 ` Brent Harding
   ` Jude DaShiell
 ` Henry Yen
   ` Andor Demarteau [this message]
 Martin G. McCormick
 ` Brent Harding

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