This sucks! OCR in Linux

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  I wouldn't mind paying either, but I use Debian.  As far as I know
there isn't a commercial product available for me.

          Kenny

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:11:49PM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> I personally don't mind paying for a product if it is a quality product.
> After all not every programmer can be expected to work free.
> As for OCR there are many good engines floating around such as Fine Reader,
> Care MTX, etc, but they are not free. Either you can purchase them, sign a
> NDA, and release a closed source OCR app, or you can start from scratch and
> take the 4 or 5 years it would take to hopefully get the quality of the pro
> grade OCR applications.
> Once you recognize time and costs of developing an OCR app a good open
> source OCR project would be a huge undertaking without a single return.
> 
> 
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