Re: offtopic: OCR on linux

[Johann Spies <jhspies@adept.co.za>]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:45:41PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote:
> Try this:
> http://www.ime.usp.br/~ueda/clara/
> 
> More informations, e-mail to ueda@ime.usp.br
> "A. Demarteau (linux rules!)" wrote:

> > Does anyone have any good ocr-package for Linux which gives very good
> > results on all kinds of texts including the somewhat worse cases like
> > badly printed manuals and newspaper-articles.

About a 18 months ago on a different mailing list someone provided
this url referring to a commercial package:

http://www.vividata.com/ocrshop.html

I did not check it out.

Johann.
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