On Friday 05 Dec 2003 3:29 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > --- Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 05 Dec 2003 2:46 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I started with a quest to find a better OCR > > > > program > > > > > then the version of Kooka that's included in 9.1. > > > > I > > > > > recall a table of applications on Twiki (at least > > > > I > > > > > think it was there) that listed the comparison. > > > > Like > > > > > for example, you would look for Quickbooks under > > > windows and next to it would be Gnucash. I > > > > searched > > > > > Twiki but couldn't't find it... Can any of you > > > > point > > > > > me in the right direction? Also, if you happen to > > > > know > > > > > of a good OCR program I'd love to hear about it =) > > > > > > Tango > > > > Tango, I don't recall ever seeing anything like > > that, but it's an > > excellent idea. I think we should start it right > > now. > > > > As for OCR, I've not tried it, but XSane has an > > option to scan to OCR, > > I think. > > > > Anne > > -- > > Ah ha! Found it... Here's the url: > > http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/#1 > > It appears to be an excellent resource. Perhaps if > this goes on up on Twiki, we could put an astrisk next > to each piece of software that is Mandrake supported. > For example if Gnucash is available from the mandrake > contrib (or perhaps other mirrors) we could put a * > next to it. Then people know they only need to urpmi > the app name to grab it. If we really wanted to get > fancy we could have the * hyperlinked to a page that > listed the Mandrake versions that support the app. So > we could setup 3 pages for example: > 1 - 9.2 > 2 - 9.2, 9.1 > 3 - 9.2 9.1 8.2 > Then depending upon the support of the app, we > hyperlink the * to 1, 2, or 3. Just some thoughts.... > That sounds a little complicated to me. Perhaps, though someone could start a table on similar lines, but adding a column for source (CD1, Contrib, plf and so on) and another for versions of Mdk? I think it needs a bit more thinking about, but basically it's a good idea.
> I tried xsane with not much more luck then Kooka. > Basically it identified some characters that Kooka > didn't, but didn't recgonize some that Kooka did. > Perhaps I should start a new thread to see what others > are doing for OCR. There's gotta be something better! > Although Kooka and Xsane were really the only free > OCR apps on that list... > I haven't tried OCR since I gave up trying to find a windows one that worked. I know they have improved, but the last one I saw still had a long way to go. Still, I haven't tried gocr, Et's suggestion. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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