[ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

[danteashton at gmail.com]

On 6 December 2010 16:55, Barry Drake <bdrake at crosswire.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:07 +0000, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
> > I had a need to do some OCR recently and came across a project called
> > tesseract-ocr: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/. It's based on
> > HP code that dates from the mid-90s. I've only used it to extract text
> > from existing graphics but it seems to be very accurate.
>
> You're right - it is accurate - and it works with the neat gui frontend
> that Danté mentioned - gscan2pdf. Makes a fantastic combination that's
> amazingly easy to use.  Tesseract and gscan2pdf really ought to get into
> the normal Ubuntu release .... or at least be well promoted in the
> 'Software Centre' and Synaptic so they are easy to find.  The only one
> that's really easy to find is gocr, and so far I'm not that impressed.
>
> Thank you both.  This will save me a lot of time in the future.  It will
> also save me having to say to my daughter or my sister 'Well, I've got
> this Windows program .....  "
>
> Barry Drake.
>
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Your welcome, Barry :)

I'm in a more troublesome state; I've been scanning my books...457 done, 251
to go :/

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-Danté Ashton

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