Thanks for the reply!
Too bad - there was even a fairly decent OCR package fro the lowly
Amiga, 10 years ago.
I'm experimenting with an OCR program (cuniform?) running on Wine, with
mixed results.
On 12-Nov-98 Norbert Bottlaender-Prier wrote:
> Lloyd Sumpter a �crit:
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>> Can someone recommend an OCR program for Linux? I tried one (xocr?)
>> but
>> the docs were in German, and it crashed.
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> forwarded this to the german Debian list. Got this reply :
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>> Can someone recommend an OCR program for Linux? I tried one (xocr?)
>> but
>> the docs were in German, and it crashed.
>
> As far as I know there's currently is no Free OCR Programm for Linux.
>
> Though Linux is employed by the US Postal service for reading
> addresses.
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> Have a look at
>
> http://www.socr.org
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> http://members.aa.net/~jtaves/ocr.htm
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> HTH,
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> Jens
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