On 19-Mar-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I've packaged gocr-0.3.1.src.rpm, from:
>> http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/
>>
>> I'd like it if i would get some response and review of my gocr.spec.
>> I've stored a rpm, src.rpm and specfile at
>> http://mpol.dhs.org/Mandrake
>> I've also uploeded the src.rpm.
>>
> what is it?
Heh, good question.
It's an OCR program, Optical Character Recognition.
Simple said, you can scan a paper with a flatbedscanner (through sane),
save it as a pnm file, and let gocr make ascii text of it again.
It's the only gpl and functional OCR program i know. But I can't say it's
really good. It doesn't do 100% character recognition, so you wouldn't
want to pay $300 USD for it :)
Here is the description:
GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under
the GNU Public License.
Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers.
GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to
port to different OSes and architectures.
It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been
improving in a daily basis.
It takes input in PNM, PGM, PBM, PPM, or PCX format, and writes
recognized text to stdout.
If the pnm file is a single dash, PNM data is read from stdin.
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Marcel Pol
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