Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Jan Goebel wrote:

> you can maybe scanner/OCR software like GOCR (open source)
> take a look at:
> http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/index.html

Sure. You can try it. But don't expect too much. When I last time (maybe a
half year ago) tested all free OCR programs for Linux -- there were
several of them -- they were all very poor. I think that OCR programs are
one of the weakest points of Linux :(

There is still Wine...