OCR under Linux

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 13 16:53:03 UTC 2005


Rob Sutherland wrote:
> I've got a client that I'm helping to escape the claws of the Great
> Beast - he's
> swinging towards Linux for his next desktop. Th only sticking point is that
> he wants to scan newspaper articles and OCR them. I don't do much
> scanning so
> I'm not sure about the state of the art in linux OCR. Anyone have any
> recommendations,
> tips etc?

Kooka supports OCR.  It's included with KDE.
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