[PLUG] Scanning and OCR in Linux
Denis Heidtmann
denish at dslnorthwest.net
Sun Apr 9 15:49:44 UTC 2006
John Jason Jordan wrote:
..snip..
> In the meantime, I have been googling on OCR and linux and discovered a few things, the most significant of which is that abbyy has released a development kit for Linux, and evidently it is free:
>
> http://www.abbyy.com/for_developers/?param=28804
>
> In the Windows world, abbyy's FineReader is considered the best OCR software for the individual desktop. There are others that run a close second, but FineReader is held as the one to beat. So now it's time for the Linux proggers to create an interface for the abbyy OCR engine.
>
> In the meantime, I guess I have to rely on Windows to do OCR.
>
From their site:
All licenses have hardware or software protection and require a separate license
agreements [sic] between the developer and ABBYY, subject to certain terms.
Pricing and licensing policies can be changed without prior notice.
-Denis
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