OCR software for Ubuntu

[Default User]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 18:39, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Default User
> <hunguponcontent at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is there any F/LOSS OCR software for Ubuntu that can input JPEG files and
> > output text files?
>
> (Synaptic) Cuneiform can do this.
>
> "Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does
> layout
> analysis and text format recognition. Cuneiform supports several
> languages."
>
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Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, after
installation, I get an error message apparently related to another program
added as a dependency.  So, it would not work, and I do not have time right
now to roll up my sleeves and investigate possible "fixes".

But thanks again for the pointer.


Anyway,
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