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[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi guys,

	ocr shop is from Vividata  www.vividata.com

	It is a port of Omnipage Pro OCR from the MS world. The latest versions of OCR Shop for Linux are usually a few versions behind the MS versions, ie not the latest OCR technology for the Linux version.

	It is not free. It is not open source. It is very closely tied to redhat and X11. Last year I tried to get the demo (free download) to install in Debian. Although Vividata promised to make it useable under Debian, to date there is, afaik, no support for anything but Redhat. It (supposedly) can be installed from the comand line under Redhat, but I'm not sure about that either.

	If anyone finds newer info on this, I'm sure many of us would like to hear about it. As for me though, I'm not going to waste more time with it until vivdata broadens their perspective.

--terry

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:16:25PM +0000, igueths at attbi.com wrote:
> How much is OCR shop and does it ship with source to build on other distros? 
> Where can I find a list of suppported scanners? Thx! 
> > 
> > Hi, if you are running Red Hat you should go with OCR Shop.  You can not 
> > find a better OCR package for Linux for the price or quality that beats 
> > OCR shop.
> > It also has a command line interface which makes it accessible. The only 
> > hangup is locating a compatible scanner.
> > 
> > 
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