From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ohsmtp03.ogw.rr.com ([65.24.7.38]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A87oN-0007ez-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:40:47 -0400 Received: from cpe-024-033-003-115.midsouth.rr.com (cpe-024-033-003-115.midsouth.rr.com [24.33.3.115]) by ohsmtp03.ogw.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h9B0eiCM006665 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:40:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:40:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Myrow To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: OCR gets better! In-Reply-To: <20031011001927.GR32134@rednote.net> Message-ID: References: <3.0.6.32.20031005164347.00860d50@mail.earthlink.net> <20031010235601.GP32134@rednote.net> <20031011001400.GA915@chris> <20031011001927.GR32134@rednote.net> 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: 2.0.11 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: Socrates calls Sane to scan, then Gocr to recognize the text. It then pipes the results through whatever pager is set by your $PAGER variable. Gocr isn't all that good, and I found that while Socrates worked with my old HP scanner, it did not with the Umax I now have because it scans in color mode by default, which Gocr can't handle. Fine is a very nice OCR engine, but extremely slow. I may have a look at their web site. It's too bad gocr isn't better, but I don't know of many people with the knowledge of how OCR works who would be willing to produce a free OCR engine.