ocrxtr recognision software

[Igor Gueths]

Spekaing of which, can anyone recommend any good ocr pkgs once I get a
scanner?

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:

> I wouldn't suggest jocr AKA gocr for anything except experimentation.  I
> can print out a page on my inkjet printer and scan it.  If I try to
> recognize it with gocr, the output is mostly underline characters with a
> few words.  You can sometimes get the gist of the text with some
> imagination.  I have an ancient version of Omnipage PRO under Windows
> which does far better.  Granted, there are a lot of options you can pass
> to gocr, but they only seem to make things worse.  All the different modes
> seem to make no difference.  I would suggest that somebody who understands
> how OCR works could seriously improve the software, but I am not that
> person.  I have halfway decent programming skills, but no absolutely
> nothing about how OCR works.  BTW, where does one obtain this OCRXTRA
> program?  Will it run on Slackware, or is it only functional in Redhat?
>
>
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