[ale] ocr and scanning text docs under Linux

[John Wells]

Looks like xsane simply uses an external ocr tool (by default, gocr).

Thanks,

John

Geoffrey said:
> I didn't know xsane had that capability.  I did at one time play around
> with something called gocr which worked so-so. It's been a while though.
>  I've never found any ocr software that worked very well, on any
> platform. :(
>
> Google returns a lot of info on gocr with:
>
> linux gocr
>
> attributes.
>
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> I haven't done a whole lot with it, but xsane has OCR capability...
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
>> On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 14:33, John Wells wrote:
>>
>>>I have an Epson Perfection 1240U working under RH 8.  The windows
>>> software from epson includes OCR software to read characters in from a
>>> document.
>>>
>>>I've found various links to pay and no-pay software, but the no-pay,
>>> which fits my budget, doesn't seem to be in a working state yet.
>>>
>>>Hoping I've missed a link or two here...anyone know if anything like
>>> this exists for linux?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>John
>>>
>>>
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