[ubuntu-za] OCR program for Ubuntu or Linux

[Dewald Noeth]

The one I am referring to wraps around tesseract so it should work for him. 
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From: Stefano Rivera
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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] OCR program for Ubuntu or Linux
Sent: Jul 6, 2011 1:22 PM

Hi Dewald (2011.07.05_23:04:08_+0200)
> I get heaps of data in images bmp that I need to extract. The program
> I use is gImageReader (I don't think it is in the repository, but it
> is on sourceforge)

ocrfeeder is the only GUI OCR frontend I can see in the Ubuntu archive.

There are a bunch of command line tools that are relatively good.
tesseract and ocropus have good reputations. The GUI frontends all just
wrap around one of these.

SR

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Dewald J. Noeth
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