Any Accurate O C R Programs in DOS I can run in Linux?

Tony Baechler tony at baechler.net
Fri Jun 28 10:53:35 UTC 2013


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I was thinking that you might find an old version of Omnipage for DOS out
there somewhere.  I remember that Project Gutenberg started using it
around 1995 or so.  It might have been for Windows 3.1, but I don't think
so.  I'm sure there are other commercial solutions for Linux as well.  I
would guess many would be command line driven in Linux for batch jobs such
as large amounts of scanned documents.  I know the Internet Archive uses
Finereader.  Remember that even if you find a DOS solution, it won't have
great accuracy due to its age and the limited processing power available
in the DOS era.

On 6/27/2013 10:25 PM, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> There is a version of abbyyfinereader for linux for not too expensive. 
> It works well.
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