new OCR project for Linux!

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
I've tried cuneiform and got very good results, it managed quite well 
(not perfectly but better than I expected) on a paper source which was 
far from perfect for scanning (eg. crumpled). It performed nearly 
perfectly on much better paper sources as well and probably will become 
my perferred OCR software at the moment. Debian doesn't seem to have a 
package yet but it wasn't a problem to compile from source. Now for 
something to help get the paper in the correct orientation on the 
scanner automatically rather than this current try and try again.

Michael Whapples
On 23/12/42 19:59, Chris Brannon wrote:
> I posted this to blinux-list the other day, but blinux is mostly dead.
> Folks on this list may appreciate it as well:
>
> Here's the blurb [1]:
> "Cuneiform is a commercial grade optical character recognition (OCR) system.
> It was originally developed and open sourced by Cognitive technologies,
> and was originally Windows-only. This project aims to port Cuneiform to run
> natively on Linux."
>
> [1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/cuneiformlinux
>
> Has anyone used it?  Will it run from the command line?  ArchLinux has a
> Cuneiform package, but I haven't installed it yet.
>
> -- Chris
>
>