Re: Fwd: others?Fwd: Open Source OCR

2006-10-17 Thread Krister Ekstrom
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:26 -0400, David Poehlman wrote: there is also GOCR and Ocrad which are open source. I haven't tested any of those, but at least as it sounded from the description of GOcr, it didn't support columns nor fonts. I don't know how this affects for example the recognition

Re: Open Source OCR

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Haneman
Luke Yelavich wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:21:17AM EST, Bill Haneman wrote: Hi Folks: I just downloaded, built, and tested this OCR engine. It is really pretty good, and it was very easy to build. At the moment it is a bit limited (requires TIFF format, 8 bit depth, and doesn't

Re: Fwd: others?Fwd: Open Source OCR

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Haneman
Krister Ekstrom wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:26 -0400, David Poehlman wrote: there is also GOCR and Ocrad which are open source. I haven't tested any of those, but at least as it sounded from the description of GOcr, it didn't support columns nor fonts. I don't know how this

Open Source OCR

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Lee
It was noted at the Accessibility Summit, http://tinyurl.com/uqen3, that a high quality FOSS OCR is needed and I remember reading earlier that Google have OSed Tesseract. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/191251 It's on a Apache 2.0 License. -- Steve Lee www.oatsoft.org

Re: Open Source OCR

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Haneman
Hi Folks: I just downloaded, built, and tested this OCR engine. It is really pretty good, and it was very easy to build. At the moment it is a bit limited (requires TIFF format, 8 bit depth, and doesn't understand columns etc.) but the limitations don't seem to be in the engine, only in the

Fwd: others?Fwd: Open Source OCR

2006-10-16 Thread David Poehlman
there is also GOCR and Ocrad which are open source. ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list