Re: [SLUG] Can anyone suggest a decent OCR application?

2007-10-09 Thread Michael Lake

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I've scanned some text (1200dpi), now .bmp files and am looking for a
good (or even goodish) OCR application for use with Feisty Fawn.

Has anyone had any experience . . .?

Regards,

Bill Bennett.


Tesseract http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr
also available as a deb via apt-get

I also tried Clara and gocr (via apt-get) and have found tesseract somewhat better 
but it may depend a lot on your images.


Mike
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[SLUG] Can anyone suggest a decent OCR application?

2007-10-09 Thread wbennett
I've scanned some text (1200dpi), now .bmp files and am looking for a
good (or even goodish) OCR application for use with Feisty Fawn.

Has anyone had any experience . . .?

Regards,

Bill Bennett.
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