Re: [Gnumed-devel] OCR on Linux

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:51:24AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] OCR on Linux
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> On 2010-03-15, at 9:44 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> 
> > For good quality 
> > scans some of the Free and Open Source OCR engines can provide good results 
> > but for anyone having the cash and wanting the text of a scan (e.g. for the 
> > document archive)
> 
> Not that I have yet tried it, but I had thought that what is already 
> available "open" for OCR -- Tesseract OCR -- fed from, say
> 
>       gscan2pdf (for individual document processing)
>       eikazo (batch mode)
> 
> should do a pretty good job, no?
> 
> Or are you talking an app that would slickly insert the text as a layer 
> within a PDF, so that it will reside within the same single document *file* ?

I think Sebastian wanted to point out that now there is a
professional-grade OCR solution available for the Linux
commandline.

Karsten
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