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Subject: Re: [kde-linux] kooka scanning software
From: Peter Catchlove <petercatchlove () hotmail ! com>
Date: 2007-11-26 8:42:49
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...yes, sorry to dampen the euphoria, but my experience with tesseract was the same \
as Richard's: much better, but still far from what you get with the (effectively) \
free stuff you get automatically when you purchase your scanner. While it's true \
that the best OCR is likely to be commercial, it's frustrating that there's stuff \
which does a very good job and is virtually given away, but can't be run under linux. \
Peter> From: cms0009@gmail.com> To: kde-linux@kde.org> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 \
16:23:33 -0500> Subject: Re: [kde-linux] kooka scanning software> > On Thursday 22 \
November 2007 12:00:22 pm Bruce Bales wrote:> > On Thursday 22 November 2007 hh:mm:ss \
Emanoil Kotsev wrote:> > > hello, everybody.> > > I want to share my \
experience/opinion with/on gocr.> > >> > > I've tried this 2 years ago and still \
monitor the mailing list. Despite> > > of the fact that there is very slow \
improvement, I was/am disappointed by> > > the fact, that it only works with the \
latin character set. Above this it> > > is not possible to add own code for other \
character sets without> > > rewriting some parts of the code.> > >> > > 2 years ago \
the developers promised, they were planning to replace the> > > algorithms with such \
using vectors, which would make extending of j/gocr> > > (with plugins) easier, but \
as far as I know it has not been done yet.> > >> > > So I think it is a waste of time \
to discuss on gocr... The C code is> > > also very complicated to read ...> > >> > > \
shortly - disaster and a pity that there is no linux ocr program. I have> > > not \
ever heard if something commercial works under linux.> > >> > > I was using OmniPage \
Pro ... and few weeks ago I tried this in a VMWare> > > (it was working an year ago \
with a great success) . Now I have an error> > > that says that the license period \
has expired and it is also not working.> > > Well the program license was obtained in \
'97 .... but I don't remember to> > > have read something about 10 year period ... \
any way commercial OCR costs> > > and linux OCR sucks> > >> > > Let us hope that the \
feature will be better at least for the linux world.> > >> > > regards> >> > \
Emanoil,> > Linux does have a great OCR program -- it is called tesseract. It works> \
> beautifully with my English scans. I do not know if it works with other> > \
> languages and fonts, but I think you should investigate it.> >> > Been trying this \
> out with xsane, and its still not as good as the cheap window > OCR scanning \
> software you get with the purchase of a scanner.> > there are some excellent \
> commercial program for scanning under windows,> that will have a 99% scanning rate, \
> for under a $100.00 and yet,> we don't have anything that can do that, for Linux ( \
> Strike one )> > Linux needs a Full Blown OCR application on the same par as windows \
> or better, > plus that can interface with any scanner.> > Richard> \
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...yes, sorry to dampen the euphoria, but my experience with tesseract was the same \
as Richard's: much better, but still far from what you get with the (effectively) \
free stuff you get automatically when you purchase your scanner. <BR> While it's true \
that the best OCR is likely to be commercial, it's frustrating that there's stuff \
which does a very good job and is virtually given away, but can't be run under linux. \
<BR> Peter<BR><BR>> From: cms0009@gmail.com<BR>> To: kde-linux@kde.org<BR>> \
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:23:33 -0500<BR>> Subject: Re: [kde-linux] kooka scanning \
software<BR>> <BR>> On Thursday 22 November 2007 12:00:22 pm Bruce Bales \
wrote:<BR>> > On Thursday 22 November 2007 hh:mm:ss Emanoil Kotsev \
wrote:<BR>> > > hello, everybody.<BR>> > > I want to share my \
experience/opinion with/on gocr.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > I've tried this \
2 years ago and still monitor the mailing list. Despite<BR>> > > of the fact \
that there is very slow improvement, I was/am disappointed by<BR>> > > the \
fact, that it only works with the latin character set. Above this it<BR>> > \
> is not possible to add own code for other character sets without<BR>> > \
> rewriting some parts of the code.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > 2 years \
ago the developers promised, they were planning to replace the<BR>> > > \
algorithms with such using vectors, which would make extending of j/gocr<BR>> > \
> (with plugins) easier, but as far as I know it has not been done yet.<BR>> \
> ><BR>> > > So I think it is a waste of time to discuss on gocr... \
The C code is<BR>> > > also very complicated to read ...<BR>> > \
><BR>> > > shortly - disaster and a pity that there is no linux ocr \
program. I have<BR>> > > not ever heard if something commercial works under \
linux.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > I was using OmniPage Pro ... and few weeks \
ago I tried this in a VMWare<BR>> > > (it was working an year ago with a \
great success) . Now I have an error<BR>> > > that says that the license \
period has expired and it is also not working.<BR>> > > Well the program \
license was obtained in '97 .... but I don't remember to<BR>> > > have read \
something about 10 year period ... any way commercial OCR costs<BR>> > > and \
linux OCR sucks<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Let us hope that the feature will \
be better at least for the linux world.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > \
regards<BR>> ><BR>> > Emanoil,<BR>> > Linux does have a great OCR \
program -- it is called tesseract. It works<BR>> > beautifully with my English \
scans. I do not know if it works with other<BR>> > languages and fonts, but I \
think you should investigate it.<BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> Been trying this out \
with xsane, and its still not as good as the cheap window <BR>> OCR scanning \
software you get with the purchase of a scanner.<BR>> <BR>> there are some \
excellent commercial program for scanning under windows,<BR>> that will have a 99% \
scanning rate, for under a $100.00 and yet,<BR>> we don't have anything that can \
do that, for Linux ( Strike one )<BR>> <BR>> Linux needs a Full Blown OCR \
application on the same par as windows or better, <BR>> plus that can interface \
with any scanner.<BR>> <BR>> Richard<BR>> \
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