Re: Query about OCR package(s)
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:00:06PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> hello.
>
> Is an OCR package available for Debian 4.0, in .deb form, that can read
> from PDF files, to allow text to be extracted from PDF files?
Yes ... From PDF? I do not know but implimenting it is simple with some
filtering.
Questio is more on quality or correctness of OCR result. So far, I have
mixed result of very bad and fairly usable. None was very good.
I think its database needs to be trained.
> In looking at what is available in Synaptic, I could not find such a
> package.
Use aptitude which has better searching capability. Here is my search
result of graphic tools including OCR.
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch12.en.html#listofgraphicdatatools
> Thank you in anticipation.
Osamu
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