Re: scanners and ocr under linux

["Michael P. Gorse" <mgorse WPI EDU>]

Don't they charge around $700 or something for it?  Don't remember,
haven't looked lately, either way it's a lot more expensive then some of
the Win98-based ocr programs which probably work better, assuming Ocrshop
isn't considered to work that well

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Frank Fremerey wrote:

> 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
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