OCR under Linux

Tue Sep 13 12:37:24 UTC 2005

Rob Sutherland wrote:
>
> I'm not sure about the state of the art in linux OCR. Anyone have any 
> recommendations, tips etc?

Dismal, sadly. gocr seems to be the only game in town (it's used as the 
backend for several other GUI projects), but you'll be correcting every 
other word.

ScanShop used to be good and affordable for the non-corporate user. But 
now I think the basic package is over $1000.

cheers,
  Stewart

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