[kde-linux] kooka scanning software

[Emanoil Kotsev]

hello, everybody.
I want to share my  experience/opinion with/on gocr.

I've tried this 2 years ago and still monitor the mailing list. Despite of the fact that there is very slow improvement, I was/am disappointed by the fact, that it only works with the latin character set. Above this it is not possible to add own code for other character sets without rewriting some parts of the code.

2 years ago the developers promised, they were planning to replace the algorithms with such using vectors, which would make extending of j/gocr (with plugins) easier, but as far as I know it has not been done yet.

So I  think it is a waste of time to discuss on gocr... The C code is also very complicated to read ...

shortly - disaster and a pity that there is no linux ocr program. I have not ever heard if something commercial works under linux.

I was using OmniPage Pro ... and few weeks ago I tried this in a VMWare (it was working an year ago with a great success) . Now I have an error that says that the license period has expired and it is also not working. Well the program license was obtained in '97 .... but I don't remember to have read something about 10 year period ... any way commercial OCR costs and linux OCR sucks

Let us hope that the feature will be better at least for the linux world.

regards



       
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