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
>  
>  
> 
> 

New and in need of help.

[Anna Schneider]

Hi everyone.  My name is Anna Schneider and I just signed on to this list.  
I'm on the blinux-newbie list too.  I am planning to buy a new computer, 
my first in several years, soon and I want to go Linux but I don't 
actually know much about how to go about this.  What I do know is I hate 
windows and voice output for windows.  I have a lot of questions though, 
some of which may seem very silly, but I don't know where else to ask.  My 
attempts to get help on the other list seem to have petered out and I'm 
not sure why.

I am fairly sure of my specific needs in a system t this point, I just 
don't know of how to go about investigating those needs.  I also need to 
be referred to some basic documentation or a Linux dictionary or something 
because I don't know the terminology.  For example, what is a kernel?

If anyone here has the time and is willing to walk me through this 
process, I would really really appreciate it.  I will probably be starting 
a small business soon too which is one reason why getting this taken care 
of is an imperative.

Thank you very much.

Anna

Re: New and in need of help.

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, Anna. If you email me off list I'll help you get a Linux box going.
My email address is
tward@bright.net

Some initial questions here.

Do you have a hardware synth?
Do you plan to buy one if not?
If you plan to scan books do you have a scsi scanner?


----- Original Message -----
From: Anna Schneider <annas@drizzle.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:45 PM
Subject: New and in need of help.


>
> Hi everyone.  My name is Anna Schneider and I just signed on to this list.
> I'm on the blinux-newbie list too.  I am planning to buy a new computer,
> my first in several years, soon and I want to go Linux but I don't
> actually know much about how to go about this.  What I do know is I hate
> windows and voice output for windows.  I have a lot of questions though,
> some of which may seem very silly, but I don't know where else to ask.  My
> attempts to get help on the other list seem to have petered out and I'm
> not sure why.
>
> I am fairly sure of my specific needs in a system t this point, I just
> don't know of how to go about investigating those needs.  I also need to
> be referred to some basic documentation or a Linux dictionary or something
> because I don't know the terminology.  For example, what is a kernel?
>
> If anyone here has the time and is willing to walk me through this
> process, I would really really appreciate it.  I will probably be starting
> a small business soon too which is one reason why getting this taken care
> of is an imperative.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Anna
>
>
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Re: New and in need of help.

[John Covici]

If you are going to any significant scanning, you should have
Windblows available -- from what I can tell, Linux ocr is not there
yet and I understand they definitely don't support twain scanners.

on Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:48:51 -0500 "Thomas Ward" <tward@bright.net> wrote:

> Hi, Anna. If you email me off list I'll help you get a Linux box going.
> My email address is
> tward@bright.net
>
> Some initial questions here.
>
> Do you have a hardware synth?
> Do you plan to buy one if not?
> If you plan to scan books do you have a scsi scanner?
>

-- 
         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: New and in need of help.

[Amanda Lee]

Yes I understand but at least I'd have some use for this other scanner which
only supports Text Bridge in WindBlows and not K1000.  I have some HP4C and
4P scanners around here which are what we use in WindBlows.  I'm sure over
time that the OCR products will get better in Linux as the developers out
there see there are more blind persons using Linux.

Amanda

Re: New and in need of help.

[Thomas Ward]

At this time I believe OCR Shop to be the only game in town for blind folks.
The quality is rather good, offers a command line interface, and there is a
growing number of twain drivers for sCSI scanners such as the HP 4P.

----- Original Message -----
From: Amanda Lee <amanda@shellworld.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: New and in need of help.


> Yes I understand but at least I'd have some use for this other scanner
which
> only supports Text Bridge in WindBlows and not K1000.  I have some HP4C
and
> 4P scanners around here which are what we use in WindBlows.  I'm sure over
> time that the OCR products will get better in Linux as the developers out
> there see there are more blind persons using Linux.
>
> Amanda
>
>
>
>
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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