OCR on linux

[Daniel Dalton]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Willem van der Walt wrote:

> You can try tesseract or another ocr engine without having sane working if
> you have an image file that you know has text in like a .tif file or so.

Oh, is jpeg supported?
Or how can I get a tif on windows? I know someone with a windows scanner 
setup.

> Sane is needed to get the stuff from the paper in the scanner into an
> image file.

yep

> Note: the current latest svn version of ocropus does not run, try a
> version from about two weeks ago.

Oh ok. I will. Thanks.

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