On Monday 18 November 2002 07:14 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
What can I use for OCR?
I have tried gocr, which seems usable.
Also clara, which seems horrible to me: only accepts files in pbm format, and so far produced nothing: It's been working on another window for 15 minutes or more, 90% CPU of a pentium IV, and no text output so far. Aparently, I have got to "train it", but it took 5 minutes to learn the letter "A", having to wait for it to reddraw after each click for minutes. There is something very wrong there...
I hate to say this, but a friend demonstrated to me his Ms-word scanning a page, and it almost even got the format (typesetting) correct!
I can't believe clara or gocr is the best I can find in linux, there must be something better :-?
------------------------------ Hmmm Carlos, Last time I tried OCR scanning, I was quite surprised at how well it did and how quickly it did the job! Don't know if the difference is the scanner (Epson) or the hardware it's connected too, but I would tend to think your experience is not the norm. I would go so far to say that my experience equals or exceeds that of your friends M$ scan. Don't know what to tell you here. Guess you could dual boot if Linux seems unable to satisfy your OCR scanning needs. Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206