[ubuntu-za] OCR program for Ubuntu or Linux

[Nico Michael (pta@ibst)]

Hi there

Tim had also recomended OCRFeeder
I could not find or download it from the Ubuntu repositories

However I did find it  searching Google

and downloaded  ocrfeeder_0.6.6-1_all.deb

I installed it and it works nicely

regards
Nico

On 2011-07-06 14:13, Dewald Noeth wrote:
> Yea, I learned my lesson with compiling from source the hard way. Hehe
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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 2:08 PM
>
> Hi Dewald (2011.07.06_14:01:54_+0200)
>> I tried some of the once in the archive and they did not work well for
>> me. Most did not have a GUI. The one I got from sourceforge is a .deb
>> so they won't have to compile from source. (If I understand you
>> correctly)
> Ah, yes chances are a DEB should be easy and safe enough.
>
> SR
>