Re: [SLUG] OCR

2004-09-14 Thread Richard Neal
Hai Ive been using ocrad http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.htm for ocr stuff with a script. Originally I had to convert some pdf's to text files I ended up writing a batch script (bash). I haven't got a copy of the script on hand (took me a while to perfect too) its been lost in the eth

Re: [SLUG] OCR

2004-09-14 Thread Nick Croft
* Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have not found anything that is anywhere near the ability of the > commercial ocr packages that come with scanner software on Windows :-( > This is the only reason why I run an emulator -- for TextBridge. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] OCR

2004-09-13 Thread David Gillies
Michael Lake wrote: Alan L Tyree wrote: Has anyone had any (successful) experience with optical character recognition software? I just tried gocr (whatever version is with Woody) without a great deal of success, but I was working with a very poor photocopy. I haven't tried this, just a suggestion,

Re: [SLUG] OCR

2004-09-13 Thread Michael Lake
Alan L Tyree wrote: Has anyone had any (successful) experience with optical character recognition software? I just tried gocr (whatever version is with Woody) without a great deal of success, but I was working with a very poor photocopy. I have tried gocr and another one called clara. Neither were

[SLUG] OCR

2004-09-13 Thread Alan L Tyree
Hi all, Has anyone had any (successful) experience with optical character recognition software? I just tried gocr (whatever version is with Woody) without a great deal of success, but I was working with a very poor photocopy. Thanks, Alan -- --

Re: [SLUG] OCR software--advice, please.

2001-05-17 Thread Geoffrey Robertson
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:19:57PM +1000, Bill Bennett wrote: > Has anybody any experience with the various OCR packages > available? Freshmeat has ocre, gocr and FreeOCR; presumably they > differ. > > Has anyone tried any of these? > > Regards, > > Bill Bennett. I've used gocr a bit and it wo

[SLUG] OCR software--advice, please.

2001-05-16 Thread Bill Bennett
Has anybody any experience with the various OCR packages available? Freshmeat has ocre, gocr and FreeOCR; presumably they differ. Has anyone tried any of these? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/list