economical linux OCR?

[Terry Klarich]

I do know this for a fact.  I did purchase OCRXTR along with maintenance a year ago last February for $366.  My previous statement
was in no way a lie.  I have already negotiated a price with them.  Perhaps instead of insulting my integrity you should ask who
I talked to.

I have a license number, product key and invoice number.

You are a damn fool.


On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:52:04 -0400you write:
>Hello Terry,
>
>	Do you know this for a fact?
>
>	I have been talking to Ralph DeWitt at Vividata in the last few days and at this point they do not have a policy/price to m
>ake the xtr ocr package available to blind users.
>
>	Please DO NOT post Mis-information! It is worse than no information.
>
>	Stay tuned. We are trying to negotiate a deal with Vividata. I will post here soon when we have it set up.
>
>	At the moment, you can download the trial software and the manual from:
>
>	ftp://www.linux-speakup.org/pub/linux/goodies/xtrclilite*
>
>	If you do, please read/follow the instructions in the manual. You must obtain a license key from Vividata before you can us
>e the software. This is the trial version only.
>
>	As we know, many sighted people think that we blind people are helpless and require a lot of extra care. Vividata is a bit 
>concerned that if they make the software available to us at a reasonable price for single-users, their tech support department wil
>l be overwhelmed with cries for help in installing/running the software. OUr negotiations with Vividata depend on their realizing 
>that we will not be calling them for a lot of hand-holding. So, please, if you download the trial version, READ and FOLLOW the ins
>tructions in the manual. It really is quite easy to do.
>
>	HTH,
>
>	--terry
>
>On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Terry Klarich wrote:
>> There is a special price for the ocrxtr product for thos of us who are blind.  It's around $300.
>> 
>> Terry
>> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 07:58:26 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time)you write:
>> >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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