economical linux OCR?

[Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>]

Hi,
There seem to be a ocr engine  for abbyy finereader for linux.
One has to email them for a price.
hth Willem



On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi guys
> 	Anyone know of a reasonably priced OCR for linux? I took OCR shop XTR 
> for an evaluation run and, while I like it, it's price tag is way up 
> there--more so than any windows-based OCR at around $2300, $950 for the light 
> version. I didn't pay half that for finereader on windows, and I think that 
> price tag is just plain ludicrous. I haven't gotten anywhere with gocr or 
> ocrad, which are free. Anyone know of any other OCR programs for linux? If I 
> could find a good OCR program I could finally trash windblows for good. 
> Failing that, I just might have to see how well vmware would work and run 
> finereader in that.
>
>
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