[NBLUG/talk] OCR software

[Troy Arnold]

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