[PLUG] tesseract OCR software

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu Jan 18 17:25:06 UTC 2007


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:58:54 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> 
> >   Until I can get some results from work I was wondering if anyone on the
> > list has tried/succeeded compiling tesseract?

>    No, but I've used GOCR successfully over the past several years.

I seldom need to OCR things, but I have been frustrated by the fact
that there seems to be little in the way of OCR software for Linux. One
day I discovered:

http://www.simpleocr.com/Demo/

And ever since have used it for those few occasions when I need to OCR
something.



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