On 12/11/05, Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 12 November 2005 18:17, Jimmy Rosen wrote: > > However, I haven't found a good OCR program yet. That is the major > > hurdle. Searchability is the really important thing. The space saving > > and portability is nice enough though, for the moment. > > > > I heard that Adobe has a windoze only software that can do this > > reasonably well, but I haven't researched it further. > > Not sure about Linux OCR. I know that you can get ScanSoft or Paper Port for > windows. Paper Port is what I hear most people recommend.
Alas, alac, there is no OSS OCR software even worth installing. They are all rubbish. Abbyy has version 6 of Finereader under linux but it is only the server version and costs an arm and a leg. I have looked high and low, as it is what I do for work and pretty much the only reason I can't get linux into our scanning operation (it would be nice to have drivers for production-scale scanners but at least on the OCR machines would be a start...). Sorry! Antoine ps. I would be keen to work on a project (as long as the boss didn't find out!) that works towards having a decent home a to z CMS system... -- This is where I should put some witty comment. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
