[lug] OCR software

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke Zichary O`Tea
> I'll looking for some good OCR software, preferably free.  Do you have any
> recommendations? 

I just reviewed "The New XFree86" by Bill Ball (Prima Tech Publishing).  It
mentions a couple of OCR solutions by name, but not much other detail than
that.  One package is called gocr (GNOME OCR).  This may produce both GNOME
and GTK standalone versions, but the text isn't clear on that.  They look
like they require a scanner to generate lineart of your text, which you
then feed to these programs.

The only other option listed was the Siemens PocketReader hardware decoder,
which is a client/server solution.  The client requires GNOME.  

Google finds these pretty easily:

gocr:  http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/
Siemens:  http://us.pocketreader.com/support/download.emm
(you have to buy the hardware, of course, which is a small, handheld
scanner)

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Michael J. Hammel                               The Graphics Muse 
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