Need advice: Ubuntu OCR techniques

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Icarus Alive <icarus.alive at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm new to OCR (optical character reading), have never done it before.
> > Suddenly I have a need.
> >
> > I've been diving through old papers and have found hard-copy (appears to
> be
> > real Courier font, laser printed on white background) of a program I
> wrote
> > decades ago on a Macintosh 512K in Lightspeed C.  I thought I had lost it
> > completely.  I would like to recover it from the hard-copy without typing
> > ~100 pages of code.  I have a scanner, and full Acrobat CS5 on a Windows
> > machine, plus all the FOSS of Ubuntu (tesseract, gocr, plus anything
> useful
> > in multiverse).  Does anybody know the fastest way to usable code from
> this
> > situation?
>
> Use the power-of-the-cloud... Google docs can do OCR. For english
> language printed text, scanned well, it works pretty well.
> http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=176692
>
> Icarus (may your wings stay on),

Great idea.  I'll check it out.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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