ocrxtr recognision software

[Thomas D. Ward]

Well, I felt the ocr quality was vary pore with gocr also known as jocr.
Though I am use to scanning with Omnipage 12.0 Pro for Windows so unless
it's quality is equal to what profetional ocr engines have my opinion will
be biast.

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Snow <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: ocrxtr recognision software


> Just curious, has anyone tried jocr?
> http://jocr.sourceforge.net
>
>
> --
> A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up
yours!"
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Terry Klarich wrote:
>
> > 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 ocrxtr
> > 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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