OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Excuse the basic question:
>> > I wish to scan a printed text so to have it in an editable text file.
>> > How can I do that with `sane' and `scanimage'?
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:57:03AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>> Scanners scan to image formats. To get editable text, you need OCR
>> software.
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> writes:
> gocr is one of a few under `apt-cache search ocr`
I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS Windows
and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software under
Linux is very poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for
that: unfortunately my test seems to confirm that. What do you Debian listers
think?
Rodolfo
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