Any OCR programs for Linux that output ASCII Text?

[A. R. Vener]

Sounds great. Go for it!

Rudy
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:11:32PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> This looks like it might be a good programming project for me - writing a 
> filter that accepts an image file and produces text. It would be Open 
> Source and free. I could probably use a lot of the code from the JOCR 
> project, but get rid of the graphics interface. I've been looking for a 
> useful and exciting project for a while.
> 
> 
> Comments?
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Terry Klarich wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:46:21 -0600you write:
> > >	I am looking for applications that take an image file such as
> > >from a document scanner or decoded PDF and output ASCII text.
> > >
> > >	My only other hope is that it works via command line.
> > 
> > 
> > Hey Martin:
> > 
> > So, how's it going?
> > 
> > I specifically use and highly recommend vividata's product.  It is not free though.  However, it is well worth the money.  I think
> > the licensing fee is about $250 or so.
> > 
> > It is nothing more than a filter.  I use sane to get the scanner image.  Sane creates a tiff file.  vividata then takes the tiff
> > file and creates a text file.  It is very nice and works well.
> > 
> > I have 2 scanners.  One is a canon lide scan 30.  This scanner is small and fits in my laptop bag.  It is powered off the usb bus.
> > The other is a microtek scanmaker 12usl.  This scanner is much faster; but, much larger.  It scans legal sized documents as well.
> > I have the best of both worlds now.
> > 
> > 
> > The product is called ocrxtr.  You should go to www.vividata.com.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Terry
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