OCR on Linux: great news

[guy schlosser]

Is there somewhere to get twain drivers for my scanner for Linux?  I 
have an Epson Perfection 1670.

Thanks,


Guy


At 06:15 PM 9/28/2006, you wrote:
>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.
>
>From
>Michael Whapples
>----- Original Message -----
>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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