[kde-linux] kooka scanning software

[david]

Most such Windows software I've met can OCR a pre-scanned image. So If 
it can run under WINE, you should be able to scan using Linux software, 
then OCR the resulting images.

Peter Catchlove wrote:
>   ...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

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