From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: OCR gets better!
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:55:20 +0200 (SAST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0603170849530.4091@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x7irqdsxm2.fsf@speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Yes, ocrad IMHO is better than gocr.
Abby for linux is not available as single-user license and the sdk which
includes a command-line client is priced at around $7000.00
The last time I have tried to compile socrates I got errors.
I will try again.
Regards, Willem
On Fri, 16 Mar 2006, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Unless they've changed something Clara isn't accessible. The web
> interface is designed for sharing font images for a font database but
> the operation is all 'X' or it was when I last looked at it.
>
> Ocrad however does a pretty good job in general. Not as good as the
> commercial engines but all-in-all not bad. There are debian packages
> for ocrad and I imagine rpm as well. I have been working recently on
> improving socrates support to handle a range of engines and do some
> hand and automated scanner control for things like resolution, scale
> and contrast.
>
> Kirk
>
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` jack mendez
` gena-j
` gnome debian testing Patrick Turnage
` OCR gets better! White, Matt
` Janina Sajka
` Christopher Moore
` Janina Sajka
` Adam Myrow
` Kirk Reiser
` Joseph C. Lininger
` Steve Holmes
` Steve Dawes
` Kirk Reiser
` Willem van der Walt [this message]
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