Re: scanners and ocr under linux

[Frank Fremerey <frank fremerey homenetz com>]

Andor Demarteau wrote:
> 
> hi everyone,
> I'm using sane-drivers for scanners (I have a HP 4P scanjet) to scan all sorts of images and that kind of stuf.
> But I was wondering if there is any text-recognition program (ocr software) availible for linux working together with sane or if not is compatible with the scanner maned above.
> tahnx for any details,
> Andor Demarteau
> Utrecht University
> 
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Yes there is.

But it is the only acceptable solution and a pretty poor one. I recently
did review it for c't-magazine here in Germany and it is not the best
and most reliable solution. Due to my investigative efforts the company
has significantly lowerded the price for private use but - that is the
bad news - they took out the command-line-option most suitable for
blinux-users in the cheap version.

Find out more and download a trial-version from www.vividata.com. If you
have access to a SuSE-Linux-Distribution you do not need to download the
test-version. It is included there starting from SuSE 6.0.

Second problem: No Vividata OCR without an Ethernet-card: The license is
bound to the Ethernet-board's unique MAC-address.

regards

Frank Fremerey
HOME - HochschulMediennetz Deutschland
Bonn Germany