The only OCR software I'm familiar with for linux is gocr. I haven't used it much but it seems ok. Good integration with SANE's X gui. On Sun, 2004-31-10 at 08:55 -0700, Rob Wultsch wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:05:58 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote: > > I have some scans of some of my older books that I would like to apply OCR to > > and was curious about people's recommendations on a package (either for Windows > > or Linux). My biggest want in the package (besides accuracy) would be the > > ability to maintain the layout of the original scanned image as the pages have > > images or tables of information in the middle of some pages that interrupt the > > flow of the text (or cause it to be redirected around it) and are multiple > > columns of text per page (either 2 or 3 depending on the source). > > I am also very interested in what is good OCR software. I plan to scan > in all my textbooks for the comming semester so that I can just carry > around my laptop. I am not sure if I will convert it to text or just > keep the many hundreds of images as jpegs, or both. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- Bryce Chidester Network Administrator CoBryce Communications Bryce AT BryceCo DOT Net http://www.bryceco.net