OCR -- Was "Why I Choose Linux"

Janina Sajka janina at cantata.rednote.net
Mon Sep 23 10:30:33 EDT 2002


No great tips here. It's why I qualified my original post with something like "usually does what I need." I weigh the lesser performance against the
hassle of rebooting just to scan a page or two. Usually, dealing with gocr wins.


Adam Myrow writes:
> From: Adam Myrow <myrow at eskimo.com>
> 
> I'd really like to know how you get anything useful out of Gocr.  Every
> time I've tried to use it, I've gotten mostly gibberish with maybe a few
> words intact.  Even a perfectly clean printout from an ink-jet printer
> will return mostly blank characters under Linux while being recognized
> fairly well under Windows.  So, any tips to improve Gocr's performance?
> 
> 
> 
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