Scanned text into text file converter?
Hello SuSE folkz, Does somebody know any method/utility to convert scanned text into editable text file in Linux. I know such software exists in Winblows world e.g. TextBridge. Do we have something similar or better in Linux? Thanks. Alex
* Alex Daniloff
Hello SuSE folkz,
Does somebody know any method/utility to convert scanned text into editable text file in Linux. I know such software exists in Winblows world e.g. TextBridge. Do we have something similar or better in Linux?
The kooka app on your desktop will do ocr. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:06:01PM -0700, Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz,
Does somebody know any method/utility to convert scanned text into editable text file in Linux. I know such software exists in Winblows world e.g. TextBridge. Do we have something similar or better in Linux?
http://www.vividata.com/ocrshop.html It's pricey, but they offer a 30-day free trial Regards, -Kastus
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:06:01 -0700
Alex Daniloff
Hello SuSE folkz,
Does somebody know any method/utility to convert scanned text into editable text file in Linux. I know such software exists in Winblows world e.g. TextBridge. Do we have something similar or better in Linux?
There are some Optical Character Recognition programs in Linux, but they really don't work very well. The problem is in matching the fonts, so you end up retyping most of the document anyways, trying to correct the OCR errors. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:06, Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz,
Does somebody know any method/utility to convert scanned text into editable text file in Linux. I know such software exists in Winblows world e.g. TextBridge. Do we have something similar or better in Linux?
Thanks. Alex
Hi Alex, There are presently two OCR Open Source programs available. GOCR - http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ Works to some degree - will have to correct quite a lot of mistakes. Not in the same league as TextBridge Clara OCR - http://www.claraocr.org/ Work in progress - Mainly designed for books and manuscripts. Both of the above programs are on the SuSE 8.0 Other option is Vividata OCR Shop - ( commercial software but has a free trial period.) http://www.vividata.com/ Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
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