tesseract is the best OCR software I have seen. As for OCR in general, it is pretty good these days. A lot of people scanning books need OCR.
Chris... On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Paul Saenz <forensicneoph...@gmail.com>wrote: > P.S. I guess it goes without saying that I'm mostly interested in Open > Source. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Paul Saenz <forensicneoph...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Does anyone know how well current Character recognition software is > > working. The two obvious types would be software that could recognize > > Characters by viewing it through a scanner, and detecting it from an > > image file. .gif .jpg .png. etc. I want to fine something that can > > read record labels directly from a record (you know... those black > > music disks they used to playon a thing called a record player), or > > from an image of a record. > > > > Thanks > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
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