ocrxtr recognision software

[Thomas D. Ward]

The best OCR solution I've found was OCR Shop. However, you require a scsi
scanner which OCR Shop supports, and you really do need a Red Hat compatible
distro to use OCR Shop. Which is one of the reasons I reject other distros.


----- Original Message -----
From: Igor Gueths <igueths at attbi.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: ocrxtr recognision software


> Spekaing of which, can anyone recommend any good ocr pkgs once I get a
> scanner?
>
> May you code in the power of the source,
> may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
>
> 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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