There is a free OCR engine, which they say would possibly be running on Mac OS X:
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ The quality is quite "good" for my taste; I know this because I'm using it from time to time (it is the core OCR engine of a commercial software PDFpen costing about 50 USD). (* Note also that PDFpen has a serious problem when OCR a big PDF file, more than 100 pages. *) Once I tried briefly the Tesseract engine itself. It compiled on my Mac OS X (10.5.5 back then) with no problem, but unfortunately, the resulting program didn't work. It may require a bit of code hacking to make it run on Mac. mahn-soo On Jan 14, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Noam A. Osband wrote: > So, a common problem I have with Skim is that I can't highlight or > underline text in a file. This happens with scanned files, > apparently because the letters come up as an image and not text. An > OCR program can fix this. they are expensive. Anyone know a good one > for free for a Mac? > > thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
