OCR

[Jason Grieves]

Henrik,

I have been looking for some sort of alternative for Kurzweil/Openbook on 
Linux for a while in our research center.  I looked into that software about 
3 months ago and it worked fairly well.  For typed text it had about 95% 
accuracy.  I was still trying to determine how I could then use the OCR'd 
software in conjunction with an AT tool to offer people with learning 
disabilities something like Kurzweil.  Have you seen any development on 
this?

The OCR software actually integrates nicely with XSANE.  I was able to get a 
txt file very quickly with my Epson scanner.  I did not see a way to convert 
it into a pdf or open document with the text already converted.  It looked 
like all I could do was a txt file.

I suspect compiling and having a very basic script hook the software into 
xsane should be able to do it for the .deb file.

Thanks,

Jason Grieves

>
>There was recently a discussion about OCR and the limited options
>available. Seems people are starting to play with the stuff the
>HP/Google released, with good results.
>
>So, how do we get this packaged in Ubuntu?
>
>Henrik
>
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