OCR software for Ubuntu

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Default User <hunguponcontent at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 18:39, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> (Synaptic) Cuneiform can do this.
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>> "Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does
>> layout
>> analysis and text format recognition. Cuneiform supports several
>> languages."
>
> 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".
>

Strange, I used it once, can't remember if on 10.04/64 or 10.10/64 and
it worked flawless. Perhaps you could try the lastest version
(1.0.0-1)  from (the non official repo) GetDebian, that can be
activated through the following link:

http://archive.getdeb.net/install_deb/getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb

or browsed at:

http://www.getdeb.net/welcome/


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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/
Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64