Any OCR programs for Linux that output ASCII Text?

[Luke Yelavich]

Sounds like something worthwhile to try.

Go for it!

Luke

At 08:11 AM 27/03/2004, 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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