From: Igor Gueths <igueths@attbi.com>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: ocrxtr recognision software
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:19:16 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304101919040.2217-100000@igueths> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0304101728010.4063@homerun.midsouth.rr.com>
Spekaing of which, can anyone recommend any good ocr pkgs once I get a
scanner?
May you code in the power of the source,
may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:
> I wouldn't suggest jocr AKA gocr for anything except experimentation. I
> can print out a page on my inkjet printer and scan it. If I try to
> recognize it with gocr, the output is mostly underline characters with a
> few words. You can sometimes get the gist of the text with some
> imagination. I have an ancient version of Omnipage PRO under Windows
> which does far better. Granted, there are a lot of options you can pass
> to gocr, but they only seem to make things worse. All the different modes
> seem to make no difference. I would suggest that somebody who understands
> how OCR works could seriously improve the software, but I am not that
> person. I have halfway decent programming skills, but no absolutely
> nothing about how OCR works. BTW, where does one obtain this OCRXTRA
> program? Will it run on Slackware, or is it only functional in Redhat?
>
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Christopher Moore
` Thomas D. Ward
` ccrawford
` Terry Klarich
` Terry Klarich
` Alex Snow
` Igor Gueths
` Adam Myrow
` Igor Gueths [this message]
` Thomas D. Ward
` Adam Myrow
` Thomas D. Ward
` Slackware VS. Redhat (was Re: ocrxtr recognision software) Adam Myrow
` ocrxtr recognision software Alex Snow
` Thomas D. Ward
` Terry Klarich
` Thomas D. Ward
` Alex Snow
` Thomas D. Ward
` Igor Gueths
` ccrawford
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