OCR gets better!

[Janina Sajka]

I have already used sane quite successfully to scan. It was even giving
me access to the hardware buttons on my HP scanner.

I think Kirk has some early work on this in a package called Socrates.

Christopher Moore writes:
> From: Christopher Moore <christopher.h.moore at verizon.net>
> 
> I looked at the web page and the linux version appears to have a
> command-line interface.  In addition to the sdk they also have a run-time
> version.  When you look at the license info they mention a 60 day free
> trial.  Not sure of any prices, but the runtime version would undoubtedly
> be cheaper than the sdk.  We would probably need to use something like sane
> to scan the images and pass the files into the Fine Read recognition engine.
> 
> Chris
> 
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Janina Sajka
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