OCR in Fedora?

[Paul Smith]

2008/7/21 joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>:
>> Does anybody do OCR using software available in Fedora? Which ones do
>> you use? How do you use them?
>> I saw an article about OCRopus [1] and how great app it is but there
>> is no ocropus in fedora currently.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071024-hands-on-with-googles-ocropus-open-source-scanning-software.html
>
> I use gocr-0.45-2.fc9.i386
>
> I think it comes from the fedora repo.

Tesseract is better:

yum install tesseract

Paul