ocrxtr recognision software

[ccrawford at acb.org]

Cool.  Sonds very good and it's like many other things a mattter of 
money eh? 

-- charlie Crawford.
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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