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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