Re: Vividata OCR Shop

[lobap@adaptech.net]

Hi:
Have you tried:
www.vividata.com
According to their info, there should be already a command-line driven 
version of their product for Linux os.

Thanks, Paweł.
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Henry,
> Thanks for the reminder. The original message may be in a Windows file,
> and I've switched to Linux except for PCR. I looked at the
> www.claraocr.org Web site and downlooaded the source code. The program is
> supposed to be used with x-window, but it shouild be possible to isolate
> the OCR routines and develop a text-mode interface.
> John
>  On Fri, 28 Dec 2001,
> Henry Yen wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:56:44PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > What is the Web site for this software, and how much does it cost? I'm
> > > looking for scanning and OCR software that can be used with Linux also.
> >
> > Hmm.  You seem to have already asked this question earlier this month.
> > If you didn't get the reply, here it is:
> >
> >    Message-ID: <20011202015132.I15968@nntp.AegisInfoSys.com>
> >    Subject: Re: OCR In Linux
> >    References: <019401c17ad7$6bf41480$e08caad8@tds.net>
> >    In-Reply-To: <019401c17ad7$6bf41480$e08caad8@tds.net>; from John J. Boyer on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:16:58AM -0500
> >    Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:51:32 -0500
> >
> >    On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:16:58AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >    > I believe that sometime ago there was a discussion of OCR packages that
> >    > would work with Linux. Now that I'm getting into Linux in a big way, I would
> >    > like to have that information, including how much these packaages cost.
> >
> >    a quick google search turns up at least four:
> >       clara OCR:  www.claraocr.org
> >       GOCR: http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/
> >       a commercial OCR with a linux version: www.vividata.com
> >       a commercial OCR with a linux version: www.mentalix.com
> >
> >    > 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
> >      (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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