ocrxtr recognision software

Terry Klarich terry at ki5zw.ampr.org
Thu Apr 10 09:30:13 EDT 2003


I messed up.  The cost is $250.  I was thinking $300 because I purchased the yearly maintenance.

Terry
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:26:51 -0500you write:
>Ocrxtr is a unix filter program which does no more than take as input a graphical file of many formats and runs optical character
>recognition on it.  It's output is an ascii text.  Very simple.
>
>One need only to obtain a scanner of their own choosing, install and configure sane.  Send the resulting tiff files to ocrxtr.
>
>I've used the Kurtzwiel reading edge and Aladen Ambassador for years.  This product far exceeds these products capibilities.
>
>The product costs $300 if you are blind and using it for home use.  There are several add-on's for $50 each.  These are mainly for
>output of specialized formats.  However, the one you might be interested in is the pdf input license.  This allows you to use ocrx
>tr
>to read pdf files.  This is superior to pdf2txt because ocrxtr will perform ocr on the graphical areas of a pdf.
>
>Terry
>On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:17:15 -0400 (EDT)you write:
>>What does this software do?  
>>
>>-- charlie Crawford. 
>>On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Christopher Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Hello listers,
>>> I recently saw a rave review of the ocrxtr software for linux from someone
>>> on this list.  I looked at the vividata site and couldn't find any prices.
>>> That is generally a bad sign meaning the price is beyond affordable for an
>>> individual.  If anyone has any idea of prices, I'd be inteerested either on
>>> or off list.  
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>
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