Just out of curiosity

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson]

Greetings,

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Krister Ekstrom wrote:

> Hi people.
> Well, the time starts to approach when i can seriously consider
> switching from Windows to Ubuntu, which is very impressing today. What i
> wonder now out of curiosity is how do people out there solve their
> ocr-ing tasks? Is it Ocrad or Gocr from a terminal or is it rebooting
> and changing OS or what do you do?

I, for one, is still using Windows only for that particular purpose. I 
have to admit that I wasn't aware of the existence of programs such as 
OCRAD and GOCR. However, I was quick to download them and try them. They 
will do in an emergency, but they don't compare with my favourite, ABBYY 
Finereader. I did notice that ABBYY Finereader offers some kind of a 
solution for Linux - not free, of course - but I haven't had time to look 
into it yet.

Of more interest is OCROPUS, which I have downloaded but not installed 
yet. Have a look at

http://code.google.com/p/ocropus

When I've found a satisfactory solution to the OCR problem, I'm definitely 
going to say goodbye to Windows.

Bertil Smark Nilsson