what software used for ocr on linux

[Fredrik Larsson]

Hi,

I think Cunneiform is now called openOCR, www.openocr.org.

Tesseract seems to work nice, better than gocr. I even managed to scan a 
document that was an image containing a code for unsubscribing a 
subscription for underwears.

Fredrik

On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Willem van der Walt wrote:

> You can buy an older version of abbyy finereader engine for linux and use 
> whatever front-end to do the OCR.
> the open-source OCR engines that is usable to some extent, is cunneiform and 
> tesseract.
> HTH, Willem
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Amir wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> i want to know what software used to scan books. on windows, we use 
>> openbook but what is the same thing on linux?
>> that is accessible to orca of course.
>> thanks!
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