Re: [Staffslug] OCR software for linux
I Just found out that none of them seem to do illustrations but that was
fine I just wanted the text from them. I was really suprised by how easy it
was to get this to work and was expecting for some major headache.
On 7 December 2013 12:43, Frank Mitchell <mitchell(a)wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk
wrote:
Hi: Using Debian, I found I had several OCR Packages. They're
probably on
DVD
#2 still. I tried them on a big PDF file with illustrations. "Tesseract"
was
best, but the result would still need manual editing with a Spelling
Checker.
"gocr" and "ocrad" were available too. Note that with all these you
only
get
the text. The illustrations were nowhere to be seen.
On Friday 06 Dec 2013 14:25:26 Jonothon Nihill wrote:
> Does anyone have any recomendations for ocr type software for Linux It's
> something I've never really had to do under linux before but I have a few
> scanned documents in a .jpg format I could do with editing.
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