From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-086.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.86] helo=toccata.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 171VDm-0008KM-00 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:38:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.rednote.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3RGckV17037 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:38:47 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.rednote.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:38:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.rednote.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Dumb Questions: Searching archives and OCR question In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020426194457.01f58a50@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I don't know that I'd call it good, but it does exist. And the command line interface works just fine for me. Essentially, I create a directory (if I'm scanning more than a page or two), and use: scanimage to get graphics files and gocr to ocr them. On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Liz Hare wrote: > > Hello, > > Two newbie questions: > > Is there any good OCR software for Linux yet? > > I was trying to inform myself about this by searching the archives of this > list. I found it kind of hard, because I couldn't find any sort of search > function on the archives page-- only several ways to download either the > entire archive. I still don't have Linux up and Both WIndoze machines at > home and at work seem to choke on the large file of all the archives when I > try to download it. Is there somewhere else I should be looking for > searchable archives? > > Thanks, > > > > > Liz Hare, Ph.D. > Research Associate > Animal Breeding and Genetics Group > B47 Morrison Hall > Cornell University > Ithaca, NY 14853 > (607) 255 2380 > eh51@cornell.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org