[ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

[danteashton at gmail.com]

On 6 December 2010 20:18, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:55 +0000, Barry Drake 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.
>
> OCRFeeder is another option: it is in the Ubuntu repo, uses Tesseract as
> a default back-end and can be installed from the software centre. I
> haven't used it extensively so I have no idea how it compares to
> gscan2pdf.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruno
>
>
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OCRFeeder is still lacking in comparsion...also, far buggier.

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