[lug] OCR software

[Hugh Brown]

I tried gocr on a medium quality tif file (you are allowed to use a handful
of different image types as input) and I got about 70% accuracy.  This was
about a month or two ago.  It wasn't quite what I needed at the time but
most likely a reasonable solution if you have a good scan to begin with.

FWIW,

Hugh

"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)