Has anyone had experience of (or know of) a practical (and preferably open source) OCR application for Linux.
I am looking for something that will play nicely with any scanner Sane recognises and is either scriptable or has a batch mode.
Regards Wayne
Kooka in kde plays nicely with sane and has OCR built in. There is Suse package for it. On my machine it installed automatically when the installer picked up my scanner. I actually tried it and I was quite impressed.
Cheers
Charles
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 20:57, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Has anyone had experience of (or know of) a practical (and preferably open source) OCR application for Linux.
I am looking for something that will play nicely with any scanner Sane recognises and is either scriptable or has a batch mode.
Regards Wayne
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The OCR engines used by Kooca are kadmos, gocr and ocrad. The latter two are executables in /usr/bin so presumably they are scriptable. Have a look at the man pages
Cheers
Charles
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 20:57, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Has anyone had experience of (or know of) a practical (and preferably open source) OCR application for Linux.
I am looking for something that will play nicely with any scanner Sane recognises and is either scriptable or has a batch mode.
Regards Wayne
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On Tuesday 25 May 2004 22:08, Charles Garcia-Tobin wrote:
The OCR engines used by Kooca are kadmos, gocr and ocrad. The latter two are executables in /usr/bin so presumably they are scriptable. Have a look at the man pages
Cheers
Charles
Cheers for the advice Charles and Rick, I am firing up YaST right now and having a look at those packages.
Wine + some Windows OCR package was an option, but I was worried about how the OCR software would interact with the scanner through Wine and also I have managed to keep this machine free of Windows or Windows software for so long now it would be a shame to cave in on this one little thing.
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