On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:32:57PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:08:55PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote:
> > > >so what is the best commercial/shareware that can read a 10pt-font
> > > >file?  (( also, when i have time to get back into actually hacking,
> > > >this [[turning imaged pdf into OCR'able ascii or 8859-1]] is giong
> > > >to
> > > >be a first target.  any idea which team i should go with.  gOCR
> > > >looks
> > > >best so far to me.
> > >
> > > AABBYY Finereader - Omnipage haven't been able to catch it in several
> > > years either feature or qualitywise. No idea if Finereader runs under
> > > emulator though.  If the file is already a PDF and 72 DPI with text as
> > > graphics most of the damage has already been done, and it will be
> > > extremely hard to OCR.
> > >
> >
> >        well, damage is probably done.  how can i check the resolution?
> >        i tried to increase it by creating huge ppm and tif files, but
> >        then that's really absurd since there can only be just so much
> >        data per image.  i _could_ try xv and jpeg and smoothing image to
> >        refine, but too much hassle.
> >
> >        (i used gocr -m 130 and "saw" the glyphs it (presumably) saw.
> >        seemed pretty much okay to my eyes.  but then i'm not a computer
> >        program.  [MAYBE :)]
> >
> >        gary
> >
> >
> >
> > > -Reko
> > >
> >
> > --
> >  Gary Kline  kl...@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service
> > Unix
> >        http://jottings.thought.org   http://transfinite.thought.org
> >    The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
> >
> 
> At one point in time, the Abby folks were offering a back-end that ran on
> FreeBSD.  I tried to get the free download; but it never happened.  (They
> misplaced my signed, faxed license agreement and I finally got tired of the
> back-and-forth prerequisite communication.)
> 
> Abby also no longer supports Mac OS X.  I use an old version and like it a
> lot.
> 


        OK, now i know what to expect.  I found theit site and signed up
        to get the linux version; trial.  not likrly to go any
        further.... 

        gary


> Andrew

-- 
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        http://jottings.thought.org   http://transfinite.thought.org
    The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

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