OCR on Linux: great news

[Michael Whapples]

I think I did come across this, unfortunately I don't think I managed to get 
it working on my slackware box. If it is as accurate as you say, may be I 
will give it another go.

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Michael Whapples
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From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:04 PM
Subject: OCR on Linux: great news


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> I just read a review on linux.com about a new open source OCR engine for
> Linux.  Well, it's not exactly new, but it has recently been open
> sourced by none other than Google, HP and UNLV.  According to the
> review, it's about 97.74% accurate, although it only recognizes tif files
> and doesn't yet correctly understand page layouts with more than 1
> column.  However these are planned features in future releases.  This
> app is called tesseract, and can be found at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract
>
> HTH somebody,
> Lorenzo
> - -- 
> I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
> - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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