Hi, I was wondering if you have any tips geting this OCRShop thing to work. I d/led the sickeningly huge 9MB tar file. (Reminds me of Windoze software.:)). Untarred, ran ./installer, set it onto /usr/local/vividata and it installed itself. Now i'm stuck: The installer & ocrshop scripts in vividata/bin generate segfaults. The installer binary from the tarfile and from the vividata/bin/linux say: "An error occured while installing the liscencing daemon. The liscencing software may not have been installed properly." When I try to do the keys thing. The ocrshop binary in /usr/local/vividata prints some errors on the console but starts up anyway (And I haven't done any keys! WOW! - If only it would work, I could use it forever!:)). However, when I actually put it to recognize, it segfaults in the middle of the recognition process.
Any ideas on what to do? Thanks alot, Timothy > The only OCR I've found which is reasonably functional is from the > scanshop people (Vividata at www.vividata.com) > > Their product is called OCRShop and it's built using Caere's Recognition > Engine. It does fairly well. The downside is that it is commercial > software. Their asking price for it is something like 750.00. Gulp. > They do give you a free thirty day trial on it, which I'm currently > using. But even with the educational discount (25% off) it's still > entirely outside my budget. Heck, I built my last computer for less. > > It's not a GIMP plugin, of course. What I do is scan in using SANE + > GIMP and save as a tiff file. Then I pass the tiff file on to OCRShop. > Guess I should get back to scanning and rendering because I've only got > three more days left on the trial license... > > Oh, I did ask them if they consider giving me a significant discount on > the software (better to earn 100 than nothing, right?) But they replied > that they are under a licensing agreement with Caere which is evidently > pretty pricey for them. > > On the other hand, OCRShop is beta and often, about once per session, > chokes on a tiff file and segfaults. It also isn't quite as > configurable as one might want--duh, like commercial software ever is... > > Once I get done with the prospectus for my dissertation I'm going to > volunteer to help out with one of the two ongoing GPL projects. If > anyone knows of any other projects let me know... There really is a > need for a good GPL'd OCR, particularly for academics like myself in the > humanities. > > That's all I've got, Timothy. Good luck! > > --Don ---------------------------------- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23-Jun-98 Time: 21:49:10 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. ---------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
