[NBLUG/talk] OCR software
Troy Arnold
troy at zenux.net
Fri Feb 15 10:04:05 PST 2008
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:41:52AM -0500, Jack Smith wrote:
> Does anyone know of any good OCR software? Good enough to read smudged
> copies? That doesn't cost an arm and a leg?
The best free stuff was pretty clearly tesserect last time I played around
with it. http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
Getting good output depends a lot on the pre-processing you do to your
images. Recently linux journal ran a very good article on OCR ... it
may be online.
-t
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