Re: new: textproc/tesseract-ocr

2008-09-07 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, jared r r spiegel wrote: > > > cranky old OCR engine that apparently sucks less than most > > other ones out there ??. friend of mine asked for it in response > > to seeing something on groklaw where they used it with imag

Re: new: textproc/tesseract-ocr

2008-07-17 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, jared r r spiegel wrote: > cranky old OCR engine that apparently sucks less than most > other ones out there ??. friend of mine asked for it in response > to seeing something on groklaw where they used it with image-based PDFs > and xpdf or something to snarf the text

new: textproc/tesseract-ocr

2008-07-16 Thread jared r r spiegel
cranky old OCR engine that apparently sucks less than most other ones out there ??. friend of mine asked for it in response to seeing something on groklaw where they used it with image-based PDFs and xpdf or something to snarf the text out of them without the stuff in ${SUPDISTFILES}, t