On 6 December 2010 15:39, Barry Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there .... > > I rarely need OCR, but one of my slight disappointments is the lack of a > really accurate OCR engine for Linux. I've tried all the ones that > exist (that I've found so far), and apart from being a bit awkward to > operate, no matter how much I vary the scan settings, I always end up > doing a lot of corrections to the output. > > I've solved the problem by getting an old copy of 'TextBridge OCR' to > work under Wine. It's one that came with a long dead scanner I had some > years ago. The thing is, TextBridge produces far more accurate output > with little or no messing about. It even drives the scanner through > Twain (I was surprised and pleased by that). > > Is anyone out there getting real accuracy with a native Linux app? > > Regards, Barry Drake. > -- > Sent from my desktop using Ubuntu - the window-free environment > that gives me real fresh air. > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
gscan2pdf is a very good program...uses unpaper, as well. -- -Danté Ashton Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici Sent from Ubuntu
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