Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread Michael Grant
I have used expensify.com at work. They have a free tier. Scanning and an app on the phone that you just take a photo of receipts as you go works well. If you can limit your expenses to 10 scans a month it's free.

Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
://openpaper.work . > > I hope it can help you, > > > > 2017-08-23 0:22 GMT+02:00 Stephen Grant Brown : >> Hi All, >> What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given immediately >> after making a purchase? >> Yours Sincerely >> Stephen Grant

Re : Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
a écrit : > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:22:37 +1000 > "Stephen Grant Brown" wrote: > > > Hi All, > > What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given > > immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely > > If you mean general retail

Re : Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Ok interesting, I will test and do feedbacks. The people I work with is interesting for testing because blind, as myself. Then they need a good quality OCR to read common image files. When I searched two years ago, I had not found very accessible an performant software (gimagereader is in GTK

Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread Joe
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:22:37 +1000 "Stephen Grant Brown" wrote: > Hi All, > What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given > immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely If you mean general retail receipts, are you sure this is a practical propositi

Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread Jerome Flesch
> > > > Le 23/08/2017 à 08:21, Jerome Flesch a écrit : > > Hello, > > Since it may be relevant, I'm going to do some advertisement for my > own software : https://openpaper.work . > > I hope it can help you, > > > > 2017-08-23 0:22 GMT+02:00 Stephen

Re: OCR

2017-08-22 Thread Jerome Flesch
Hello, Since it may be relevant, I'm going to do some advertisement for my own software : https://openpaper.work . I hope it can help you, 2017-08-23 0:22 GMT+02:00 Stephen Grant Brown : > Hi All, > What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given immediately >

Re: OCR

2017-08-22 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Many great solutions exist now for OCR on Linux. 1. Free software: gimagereader (uses Tesseract), works all right, as well as gocr 2. Other free solution: Hypra developed Ocrizer. If you install it, you can: - from a shortcut, running the scanning process, the characters recognition, and

Re: OCR

2017-08-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Probably CamScanner on a smartphone. On 8/22/17 3:22 PM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi All, What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and

Re: OCR

2017-08-22 Thread Doug
On 08/22/2017 05:22 PM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi All, What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown I wish there was a good OCR in Linux, but if there is, I don't know of it. You need Wi

OCR

2017-08-22 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi All, What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown

Re: OCR

2010-12-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 12. 2010 23:57:10 je Debian TR napisal(a): So what do you suggest? are there good commercial softwares for linux or should i find a win software which works under wine? The last time I used OCR (talking about 15 years ago), it was on a Windows machine and there was no need for

Re: OCR

2010-12-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Dec 2010, Bernd Kloss wrote: > > > > I've found that the Debian tesseract package (tesseract-ocr-eng) works > > very well, with extremely few errors. > > But isn't it cli - only? > regards > It is, but is that a problem? -- Anthony Campbell - a.

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Doug
On 12/01/2010 03:57 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Nov 2010, deloptes wrote: Debian TR wrote: Hi everyone, I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if I didn't get it wrong, tesseract i

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Debian TR
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 22:55 +0100, deloptes wrote: > Debian TR wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed > > that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if > > I didn

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread deloptes
Anthony Campbell wrote: >> > > I've found that the Debian tesseract package (tesseract-ocr-eng) works > very well, with extremely few errors. > ok well I forgot to mention that usually latin chars are not a problem also for g/jocr but it's not enough. yes tes

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2010 schrieb Anthony Campbell: > On 30 Nov 2010, deloptes wrote: > > Debian TR wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed > > > that there are several softwares s

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Nov 2010, deloptes wrote: > Debian TR wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed > > that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if > > I didn't get it wrong, tess

Re: OCR

2010-11-30 Thread deloptes
Debian TR wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed > that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if > I didn't get it wrong, tesseract is one of the best softwares (maybe the > best one) I&#

OCR

2010-11-30 Thread Debian TR
Hi everyone, I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if I didn't get it wrong, tesseract is one of the best softwares (maybe the best one) however, in the repos (sid-squeeze) an older version

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-29 Thread Rainer Kluge
Hugo Vanwoerkom schrieb: Hi, Recently there was a post mentioning tesseract. Turns out that is an award winning opensource OCR that works! Hugo I use it with the gscan2pdf frontend and it works perfectly (at least for documents in german language) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
essary. Following the docs, I did > > There is an option at the top of the Preferences/Filetyple tab to save > in 8-bit, but glad to know this isn't needed. > > >  export TESSDATA_PREFIX="/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/" > > > > There was no need for "- l eng&

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-28 Thread andmalc
Preferences/Filetyple tab to save in 8-bit, but glad to know this isn't needed. >  export TESSDATA_PREFIX="/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/" > > There was no need for "- l eng" since I only had the English version of > tesseract installed. So to scan a page saved at 300

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Dec 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Recently there was a post mentioning tesseract. > > Turns out that is an award winning opensource OCR that works! > > I tried it out: > > 1. apt-get install tesseract-ocr > 2. apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng > 3

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-27 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/12/21 Hugo Vanwoerkom : >> [3] don't scan at less than 300 dpi > > And don't scan above 600 DPI! > > I forget which OCR I played with a few years ago, but 300 and 600 DPI > yielded satisfactory results

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/21 Hugo Vanwoerkom : > [3] don't scan at less than 300 dpi And don't scan above 600 DPI! I forget which OCR I played with a few years ago, but 300 and 600 DPI yielded satisfactory results. 1200 DPI made things _worse_ not better, possibly because of noise. This was on Fedora

tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Recently there was a post mentioning tesseract. Turns out that is an award winning opensource OCR that works! I tried it out: 1. apt-get install tesseract-ocr 2. apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng 3. use xsane to scan a page at dpi 300 and save as .tif 4. run: convert foo.tif -depth 8 foo1

Re: Query about OCR package(s)

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-15 00:08:45, schrieb Osamu Aoki: > Yes ... From PDF? I do not know but implimenting it is simple with some > filtering. The OP can use "netpbm" to pipe the PDF through the module and then into the ORC software... Have a nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 wi

Re: Query about OCR package(s)

2008-07-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:51:23 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Bret, > So, Adobe Reader 8.0 provides the text extraction, or copying, that I > sought, so an OCR application that imports text from PDF files, is > now probably redundant (other than that it co

Re: Query about OCR package(s)

2008-07-14 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Bret Busby wrote: hello. Is an OCR package available for Debian 4.0, in .deb form, that can read from PDF files, to allow text to be extracted from PDF files? In looking at what is available in Synaptic, I could not find such a package. Thank you in anticipation

Re: Query about OCR package(s)

2008-07-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:00:06PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > hello. > > Is an OCR package available for Debian 4.0, in .deb form, that can read > from PDF files, to allow text to be extracted from PDF files? Yes ... From PDF? I do not know but implimenting it is s

Query about OCR package(s)

2008-07-13 Thread Bret Busby
hello. Is an OCR package available for Debian 4.0, in .deb form, that can read from PDF files, to allow text to be extracted from PDF files? In looking at what is available in Synaptic, I could not find such a package. Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia

Re: OCR for page with multiple languages and hand written)

2008-05-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:08:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > GOCR might, but I *seriously* doubt it. And I doubt that any app > besides one designed for Hebrew would work. For Hebrew there's hocr . http://hocr.berlios.de/ Upstream has some interesting changes not included (yet?) in the Debi

Re: OCR for page with multiple languages and hand written)

2008-05-10 Thread Paul Csanyi
Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to run OCR application on hand written pages ? You can try this ocr: http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ http://groundstate.ca/ocr Ocropus is the motherload of Free OCR. It began as a combination of a handwriting analysis eng

Re: OCR for page with multiple languages and hand written)

2008-05-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/08 05:12, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello,... > > > Is there a way to run OCR application on hand written pages ? > > > for example Holocaust survivor pages : > > http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_

OCR for page with multiple languages and hand written)

2008-05-10 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello,... Is there a way to run OCR application on hand written pages ? for example Holocaust survivor pages : http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_FL/.cmd/acd/.ar/sa.portlet.VictimDetailsSubmitAction/.c/6_0_9D/.ce/7_0_V9/.p

OCR friendly fonts - saving GPG key safely

2008-03-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Does anyone know OCR friendly fonts. I am trying to print things like gnupg keys and recover it by OCR. It has to be fixed width font. (Experiment was done via PDF(OOffice)->graphic(Gimp). gocr was usable but tesseract was not at first try.) Bitstream was best but F was converted t

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-24 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS >> Windows >> and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software >> under >> Linux is very poor at the moment an

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS Windows > and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software > under > Linux is very poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for > that: u

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> > >> Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". >> > > >> > >Yes. But it is old 1.02

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
If you install as stated above with aptitude, tesseract-ocr-data is automatically installed unless you change default behavior of aptitude. FTBFS is just package issue. This package should work. Otherwise, please file bug report. Osamu, thanks a lot. The package works well. Sorry -- if I was

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". > > > >Yes. But it is old 1.02 version and has FTBFS bug. > > Yes, it's old. I installed from sources but I don't get the charsets. > >

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Wayne Topa
the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". > > > >Yes. But it is old 1.02 version and has FTBFS bug. > > Yes, it's old. I installed from sources but I don't get the charsets. > > tesseract test.tiff out > Unable to load unicharset file /usr/l

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". Yes. But it is old 1.02 ver

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". Yes. But it is old 1.02 version and has FTBFS bug. If anyone here is interesed to help

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
with `export TESSDATA_PREFIX="/usr/local/share/tessdata/"', but > nothing. Now I'm stuck. Any suggestion please? Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS Windows > and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software > under > Linux is very poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for > that: u

Re: OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)

2007-07-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:10:27PM +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software under Linux is very > > poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for that: > > unfortunately my test seems to confirm

Re: OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)

2007-07-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software under Linux is very > poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for that: > unfortunately my test seems to confirm that. What do you Debian > listers think? I think you should check out these

OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)

2007-07-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
r wrote: >> Scanners scan to image formats. To get editable text, you need OCR >> software. Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gocr is one of a few under `apt-cache search ocr` I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS Wind

Re: Debian OCR software that actually works?

2004-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
itten anything. However, my brutal opinion is that the quality of GOCR sucks, and it's useless, and the closed source absolutely hands down wins the "OCR wars". This says it all for me: http://www.gutenberg.net/faq/S-17.shtml Check out Scan 2, "Typical Scan", and the quali

Re: Debian OCR software that actually works?

2004-03-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:05:28PM -0800, Number Six wrote: ... > If Gutenberg says it sucks, it sucks. Sad but true. > > Again, they rock and I suck. Sorry--I wasn't trying to say you were wrong to have an opinion about the _software_. My point simply was that unsupported software by nature de

Re: Debian OCR software that actually works?

2004-03-08 Thread Number Six
ck, cause I haven't written anything. However, my brutal opinion is that the quality of GOCR sucks, and it's useless, and the closed source absolutely hands down wins the "OCR wars". This says it all for me: http://www.gutenberg.net/faq/S-17.shtml Check out Scan 2, "Typica

Re: Debian OCR software that actually works?

2004-03-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
said it is missing a text autostraightener. > "apt-cache search straighten" shows nothing. > > I don't mean to gripe, but OCR accuracy went to >90% everywhere around > the time the 486 came out. I'm sure GOCR can be made to do equally as > good as all the rest,

Re: Debian OCR software that actually works?

2004-03-08 Thread Number Six
like rotated text > and font size than you find in commercial ventures. IIRC there were a > number of tweaks one could perform in its setup, too. The other stuff I've read said it is missing a text autostraightener. "apt-cache search straighten" shows nothing. I don&

Re: Debian OCR software that actually works?

2004-03-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 06:59:58PM -0800, Number Six wrote: > I've got a very clean, large font plain-jane-as-they-come book I want to > OCR. I've scanned it at grayscale and lineart at 150, 300, and 600 dpi > res, and run it through GOCR. > > The output is horrible an

Debian OCR software that actually works?

2004-03-07 Thread Number Six
I've got a very clean, large font plain-jane-as-they-come book I want to OCR. I've scanned it at grayscale and lineart at 150, 300, and 600 dpi res, and run it through GOCR. The output is horrible and unusable -- probably 40% of the text is misscanned. What up? And what can I do

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-14 Thread Tamas Nagy
. > > I could scan them into tif or jpg images, and them transfer > then onto my Debian Woody system for OCR processing. > I do not have a scanner so must borrow one. > > My google efforts did not yield much in terms of usefull info. > > Kind Regards > Dan Hunt > ht

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Searching for ocr at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages gives a few interesting hits: gocr gocr-gtk gocr-tk gocr-doc clara Don't know how good are, though. You can use xsane for scanning -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Joseph Barillari
y now DH> one more generation has to be added. DH> I could scan them into tif or jpg images, and them transfer DH> then onto my Debian Woody system for OCR processing. I do not DH> have a scanner so must borrow one. DH> My google efforts did not yield much in ter

Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Dan Hunt
onto my Debian Woody system for OCR processing. I do not have a scanner so must borrow one. My google efforts did not yield much in terms of usefull info. Kind Regards Dan Hunt http://hunt.ath.cx/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Scanner and OCR advice

2001-11-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
; > > documents will be analyzed as text, which means I'll have to use OCR > > > software as well as a scanner with an automatic document feed. > > [...] > > > There is an OCR package from Mentalix called Pixel!FX. It supports only > > SCSI scanners, and I

Re: Scanner and OCR advice

2001-11-15 Thread Frank Zimmermann
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:34:24AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I've just received a grant for a project that will involve scanning and > storing a substantial number (e.g., around 3000) of short documents. These > documents will be analyzed as text, which means I'

Re: Scanner and OCR advice

2001-11-14 Thread Andras BALI
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:34:24AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > I've just received a grant for a project that will involve scanning and > > storing a substantial number (e.g., around 3000) of short documents. These > > documents will be analyzed as text, which mea

Re: Scanner and OCR advice

2001-11-14 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 06:35, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings. > > I've just received a grant for a project that will involve scanning and > storing a substantial number (e.g., around 3000) of short documents. These > documents will be analyzed as text, which means I'll h

Scanner and OCR advice

2001-11-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. I've just received a grant for a project that will involve scanning and storing a substantial number (e.g., around 3000) of short documents. These documents will be analyzed as text, which means I'll have to use OCR software as well as a scanner with an automatic document

Handheld scanner/OCR Shop questions

2001-07-04 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
share your own positive/negative experiences on this matter if you would be so kind. I really hope to find one that I could plug into a parallel port of my Debian laptop and have it reliably scan in the text I need. I'm thinking of purchasing vividata's OCR Shop software to do the text re

Re: offtopic: OCR on linux

2000-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:45:41PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > Try this: > http://www.ime.usp.br/~ueda/clara/ > > More informations, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "A. Demarteau (linux rules!)" wrote: > > Does anyone have any good ocr-package for Linux which giv

Re: offtopic: OCR on linux

2000-09-29 Thread Carlos Menezes
Try this: http://www.ime.usp.br/~ueda/clara/ More informations, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards! Carlos Menezes. "A. Demarteau (linux rules!)" wrote: > dear debian-users, > (debian-user subscribers please answer privately as well). > Does anyone have any good ocr-pack

offtopic: OCR on linux

2000-09-29 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
dear debian-users, (debian-user subscribers please answer privately as well). Does anyone have any good ocr-package for Linux which gives very good results on all kinds of texts including the somewhat worse cases like badly printed manuals and newspaper-articles. At this moment I'm relying

RE: Is there OCR for Linux ?

2000-07-26 Thread J.T. Wenting
Greek characters can be represented by an equivalent ASCII character (alpha -> a, beta -> b, etc.). You'd need a specialized parser, but no need to translate the text into another language. The OCR program should of course be capable of generating UNICode, as Greek characters are not

Re: Is there OCR for Linux ?

2000-07-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:30:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, I have this (hard) problem: > > ancient greek (on paper!) --> ASCII ---> > braille for blind people > > > Then my question: There is an OCR software for Lin

Is there OCR for Linux ?

2000-07-26 Thread Carlo Pecchia
Hi all, I have this (hard) problem: ancient greek (on paper!) --> ASCII ---> braille for blind people Then my question: There is an OCR software for Linux that recognize the old greek chars ? Please help me! Thanks.

Re: scanner, ocr

1999-10-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 05:00:05 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > however is there any OCR software that will enable me to scan in a text > document and produce an ascii file? Have a look at http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/02/07/918433299.html HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier.

scanner, ocr

1999-10-28 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just picked up an old HP scanjet 3c and would like to use it under linux. I know that it is supported by sane/gimp, however is there any OCR software that will enable me to scan in a text document and produce an ascii file? Thanks. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net

OCR for linux (fwd)

1999-04-14 Thread Johann Spies
I saw the following message on another mailing list: -- Forwarded message -- To: glug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Dr M Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: GLUG: OCR for linux Hi there I have found OCR for linux ( commercial ) URL:http://www.vividata.com/ocrshop.html

Re: Scanners and OCR

1999-04-09 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Mark Mackenzie wrote: > I intend to buy a scanner, mainly to be used for OCR of journal articles > (with some b/w pictures), hopefully for less than $AUS250 (arround $A150 > I guess) Sadly, the state of OCR under Linux is... immature at best. There currently is

Scanners and OCR

1999-04-09 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi all, I intend to buy a scanner, mainly to be used for OCR of journal articles (with some b/w pictures), hopefully for less than $AUS250 (arround $A150 I guess) I have had a look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html and the hardware howto, but the later models I am looking at

Re: OCR software for Linux?

1998-12-07 Thread Jens Ritter
: http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ocr/ http://www.socr.org/ xocr (name of software) HTH, Jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Nach dem Spiel, After t

OCR software for Linux?

1998-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi! Does anyone know of any Optical Character Recognition software for Linux? I'd love to have this capability with my brand-new scanner. peloy.-