OCR Software

[Robert Hodgins]

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:37 -0500, Tony Yarusso wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Steve Brettell <sbrettell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I haven't looked really hard yet, but I hope I can take a shortcut here:
> > I need OCR software that works with Ubuntu.
> > Is there a program that is well thought of?
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> I don't entirely understand it, but 'tesseract' is in the repos.
> Apparently though it's just the engine, and a front-end to use it
> would be separate.  Never actually tried myself yet.  Perhaps XSane
> can hook into it and then out through something else?
> 
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> Tony Yarusso
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quiteinsane works well for me.