Re: scanners and ocr under linux

[Ryan Shugart <ryan lothlorien nfbcal org>]

Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but what Gnome speech project?  
I wasn't aware of any speech for X besides limited access with Ultrasonix.
Ryan


On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Whistler wrote:

> Well if it is $700 don't knock that Open book ruby is $785 or something
> close so that isn't a bad price if it works.
> 
> I wish Arkenstone would jump on board linux maybe they will now that
> Borland has a running version of bcc on linux and even a start of a
> running version of Delphy for xwin.  Now all we need is that Gnome speech
> project and we can start totally getting away from that Microjunk
> 
> Ken /whsitler
> 
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Michael P. Gorse wrote:
> 
> > 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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