Re: OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)

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Subject: Re: OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)
From: bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:10:27 +0200
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Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> 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?

I think you should check out these articles.

  http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html

  http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

  http://www.linux.com/articles/57222

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr

Bob

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