Re: OCR software

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 <kevin_brown@qwest.net> 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.
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