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Any decent OCR software?

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Name: 3Dave
Date: August 11, 2005 at 08:21:48 Pacific
OS: Slackware vcurrent
CPU/Ram: Never enough...!=o
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Whilst browsing for some character recognition software to use with my scanner I came across this quote:
"What OCR Exists Is Not Very Useful.
The OCR that's out there is not terribly useful. Some (like xocr) appear to be too buggy to even be used as a starting point. Unfortunately, this is not likely to change in the near future. For the moment, you're best off doing OCR under Windows, Macs, or some other commercially-supported platform for OCR."

(http://ingles.homeunix.org/presos/sanepres/3-3/ocrsoft.html)

Not being a windoze or mac user I need something that will work OK under GNU/Linux....does anyone out there have any recommendations or experiences? I have just installed clara and gocr and will see how I get along with those.



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Name: jam14online
Date: August 12, 2005 at 03:00:58 Pacific
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Have you tried Clara OCR? It looks like you'll have to compile it, but it seems okay.


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