On Tuesday 31 March 2009 22:31:54 Scott Edwards wrote: > 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. > Tesseract was originally developed by HP and was open sourced in 2005.
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ > There was one that recognized bar codes too, but I don't recall the name. Zebra Crossing. It's pretty nice. http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ -- Doran L. "Fozz" Barton <f...@iodynamics.com> Open-source developer, sysadmin, consultant, and all-around geeky dude "Let's keep the party clean!" -- Seen on a colorful vomit bag in a bus in Japan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
