OCR Software

[Alan E. Davis]

I've been having lots of fun with gscan2pdf, using the tesseract ocr engine
and unpaper.  Using an HP commodity Office Jet, all in one, this combination
is awesome.  I have had up to 99% correct character reads on several pages
of clean text, and excellent recovery even from 15 year old, bleeding inkjet
copy.

Tesseract works well, anyway, esp. in combination with unpaper.  With the
guiding had of gscan2pdf, one gets great OCR results, and can save the
originals to pdfs.

Alan

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Robert Hodgins <ehodgins at telusplanet.net>
wrote:

> 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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> >
>
> quiteinsane works well for me.
>
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