Am Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 00:04 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen: > Greg Furmanek <g...@esdlc.com> writes: > > Hi gang :-) > > > > I have been lurking on the list for quite some time. There are a > > lot of good info I got from you guys. I am just wondering if you > > have any recommendations when it comes to open source OCR libraries. > > It would be nice if they were portable to win32 but not necessary. > > I am mostly interested in the recognition algorithms and techniques. > > I am only aware of the following bits of free software. Have not used > any of them. > > gocr - (sorry no URL handy) > hocr - http://hocr.berlios.de/ > ocrad - http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html > > BTW, hocr-gtk says it's for Hebrew OCR. > > Hope this helps, > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen > FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ > GnuPG key: 30EF893A/2774 815B DE83 06C8 D733 6B5B 033C C857 30EF 893A > Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
Having done extensive testing with open-sourrce-OCR-software I'm sad to say that this is one of the last real deficiencies of open source against the Windows-world. None of them can seriously compete with commercial programs - either they are in their early stages or they are maintained any longer. So the only way to get reliable results under Linux is (especially with serif-characters) is to try to get running a Windows-program via WINE. Some in depth programming knowledge provided a further possibility may be to get a SDK for Linux from ABBYY (http://www.abbyy.de/sdk/?param=55304). Wolfram Heider
