[PLUG] OCR packages compared; How GNOME became LAME | LinuxWorld (fwd)

[Robert Kopp]

--- Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> TWO OCR PACKAGES FOR LINUX COMPARED
>      (Source: LinuxWorld.com) Joe Barr compares two
> Optical
> Character Recognition packages -- Kooka & Gocr (free
> software)
> and OCR Shop (proprietary) -- that may be of special
> value in the
> legal and medical fields. While Joe finds one of the
> packages to
> be clearly superior in terms of performance, his
> personal pick of
> the two applications may surprise you.
> http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=741961

I use a Windows OCR program under WINE.After reading
the above article, I'm still convinced that doing this
is the best option.  

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Robert "Tim" Kopp
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"SAMBA--opening Windows to a wider world."