Need advice: Ubuntu OCR techniques

[A. Kromic]

On 09/10/11 19:34, Kevin O'Gorman 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?
>
> -- 
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>

When we're to it, what's the best way to create pdfs combining both text
and original images (I'm not sure how it'd properly called, but most
quality book scans are made that way)?

Thanks,

-- 
A.Kromic
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