[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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