[kde-linux] kooka scanning software

[Peter Catchlove]

...yes, sorry to dampen the euphoria, but my experience with tesseract was the same as Richard's: much better, but still far from what you get with the (effectively) free stuff you get automatically when you purchase your scanner. 
While it's true that the best OCR is likely to be commercial, it's frustrating that there's stuff which does a very good job and is virtually given away, but can't be run under linux. 
Peter> From: cms0009 at gmail.com> To: kde-linux at kde.org> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:23:33 -0500> Subject: Re: [kde-linux] kooka scanning software> > On Thursday 22 November 2007 12:00:22 pm Bruce Bales wrote:> > On Thursday 22 November 2007 hh:mm:ss Emanoil Kotsev wrote:> > > 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> >> > Emanoil,> > Linux does have a great OCR program -- it is called tesseract. It works> > beautifully with my English scans. I do not know if it works with other> > languages and fonts, but I think you should investigate it.> >> > Been trying this out with xsane, and its still not as good as the cheap window > OCR scanning software you get with the purchase of a scanner.> > there are some excellent commercial program for scanning under windows,> that will have a 99% scanning rate, for under a $100.00 and yet,> we don't have anything that can do that, for Linux ( Strike one )> > Linux needs a Full Blown OCR application on the same par as windows or better, > plus that can interface with any scanner.> > Richard> ___________________________________________________> This message is from the kde-linux mailing list.> Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux.> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
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