OCR under linux

OCR under linux

[Alastair Irving]

Hello list
 
Can anyone recommend any console based optical character reckognition
software for linux?  If so, how does this compare to the professional
windows software, such as finereader and omnipage?  
 
Many thanks
 
 
Alastair Irving
e-mail (and MSN): alastairirving19@hotmail.com
 
 

Re: OCR under linux

[Michael Whapples]

Do you want one that you can use for free or do you mind paying for 
it? The main ones that you could use for free are gocr and ocrad. I think 
there is another that is mentioned sometimes, but it requires x11 libraries, 
although it can be run from the command line (I think this was so because of 
the way it was written, the gui and command line parts weren't seperate). 
When I last tried, gocr and ocrad were very poor (although that may have 
been due to poor setup, but that indicates that they are not just ready to 
go, so not very preferable either way).

If you move to the commercial ones, I think there is one that uses the 
omnipage ocr engine, so that would indicate it would work as well as the 
windows version of omnipage. I can't remember the name of it, but if you 
search for it, it does mention in the information that it uses omnipage 
engine.
From
Michael Whapples

Alastair Irving writes:

> Hello list
>  
> Can anyone recommend any console based optical character reckognition
> software for linux?  If so, how does this compare to the professional
> windows software, such as finereader and omnipage?  
>  
> Many thanks
>  
>  
> Alastair Irving
> e-mail (and MSN): alastairirving19@hotmail.com
>  
>  
> 
> 

OCR under Linux

[Saqib Shaikh]

Sorry, I haven't been following this thread, but just read the post stating
that "OCR Shop" is the only option for blind people.

In case it hasn't been covered Emacspeak provides a talking interface to
GOCR and I think other scanning engines also.

Saqib