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------- Additional comments from shrow...@openoffice.org Thu Dec 3 20:02:31 +0000 2009 ------- The lack of integrated OCR in OOo (Writer, specifically) continues to be a deficiency. Hardly a day goes by without me using the scanner to glean text or data for re-use in other documents. Integration with calc would be useful. Once upon a time GOCR was the best of a poor lot of (GNU/Linux) OCR engines. Today TESSERACT is much a better engine - but it still has limitations. OCUBE is a little script which integrates tesseract and SANE (would probably work with kooka for KDE users). Reformatting of text scanned imported into OOo documents is problematic because of all the inherent line-breaks, requiring either special incantations involving regular expressions (another issue?) - something the average user doesn't know or care about - or reformatting before inserting the scanned text into the OOo document. For that task alone I still run TextPad.exe with WINE - there are no GNU/Linux equivalents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
