Its not too much work. You don't need to 'prepare the image' as mentioned in the tutorial. How hard is it? Install tesseract, imagemagick and then run two commands. If you have multiple images, you can just write a script.
If you insist on using a GUI, you should look at Kooka or gocr. Kunal On 10/26/07, Vidyadhar Gadgil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could somebody point me to a OCR tool on Linux which has a GUI > interface and also works well. > > I have tried tesseract, and it requires so much fiddling around > that it's probably faster to type in the text I want to run ocr > on...see, for example > http://www.howtoforge.com/ocr_with_tesseract_on_ubuntu704 > > Oh yes, running debian 4.0 and using a Canon Lide 25 scanner. > > -- > Question everything -- Karl Marx > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) > List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail > Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions. > -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
