On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:39, Rex Johnston wrote: > As for OCR, well last time i looked, it did actually suck. > Anyone used clara ?
In a word, hopeless. You have to train it for every font you are going to use, and even then it only works more than half reliably if the print quality is absolutely exceptional. Crackpot UI from another world to boot. I'm a consummate Linux devotee saying that please note. From the point of usability the 'K' effort is a bit better, but if you have to get real work done, imho, you have to swallow your pride and do what the rest of the world does. To write an OCR app which works properly is, imho, beyond the means of the usual kind of Linux project. The road is absolutely littered with failed attempts. I looked into the subject fairly throughly a year or two ago because I have a friend who is rather severely handicapped visually, and I wanted to make him a book reader. I ended up reading the book aloud to him. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
