[kde-linux] kooka scanning software

[Hans Grapenthin]

Richard,

the best you can get in OSS is tesseract. The OCR engine is good, but it lacks 
a GUI to define OCR Areas, columns etc.

Hans

Am Dienstag, 20. November 2007 08:20:12 schrieb Richard:
> been trying out this program, for the most part, all seems to work okay,
> scanning in documents...however, using GOCR ocr software, to scan image,
> after the fact, its not doing a good job at all, even at 400 dpi setting.
>
> I've saved the image, in bmp, tga png, and jpeg with color and no color
> or lineart... still OCR is not displaying text correct
>
> Anyone know of the correct setting to scan in Documents,
> what resolution and what format to save as...
>
> Then how to get GOCR to work right ? ( please note: it does get a few words
> correct )....A Few
>
> I need to scan in about 300 hundred documents, to be archive,
> would like to be able to have them scan and ocr into a openoffice
> format..etc or .pdf format (that you search on text inside.pdf)
>
>
> TIA
> Richard
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