On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Daniel C. <dcrooks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience using f/os OCR packages? I've used > Google to try and find a few of them but my "This package is obsolete > or otherwise won't work" meter blinks wildly at all the ones I've > found. (It may be broken, I'm not sure.) > > Thanks, > Dan > I haven't used OCR on Linux in a while, but here are to candidates I found that are available in Debian Etch. (yes, I haven't upgraded, *yet*). gocr is a multi-platform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program. Clara OCR is intended for large scale digitalization projects. It features a powerful GUI and a web interface for cooperative digitalization of books. There was one that recognized bar codes too, but I don't recall the name. Good luck! Scott Edwards /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
