Any OCR programs for Linux that output ASCII Text?

[Martin McCormick]

	This sounds like a great project.  Go for it.

Martin McCormick

"John J. Boyer" writes:
>This looks like it might be a good programming project for me - writing a 
>filter that accepts an image file and produces text. It would be Open 
>Source and free. I could probably use a lot of the code from the JOCR 
>project, but get rid of the graphics interface. I've been looking for a 
>useful and exciting project for a while.
>
>
>Comments?
>
>John
>
>
>On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Terry Klarich wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:46:21 -0600you write:
>> >	I am looking for applications that take an image file such as
>> >from a document scanner or decoded PDF and output ASCII text.
>> >
>> >	My only other hope is that it works via command line.
>> 
>> 
>> Hey Martin:
>> 
>> So, how's it going?
>> 
>> I specifically use and highly recommend vividata's product.  It is not free 
>though.  However, it is well worth the money.  I think
>> the licensing fee is about $250 or so.
>> 
>> It is nothing more than a filter.  I use sane to get the scanner image.  San
>e creates a tiff file.  vividata then takes the tiff
>> file and creates a text file.  It is very nice and works well.
>> 
>> I have 2 scanners.  One is a canon lide scan 30.  This scanner is small and 
>fits in my laptop bag.  It is powered off the usb bus.
>> The other is a microtek scanmaker 12usl.  This scanner is much faster; but, 
>much larger.  It scans legal sized documents as well.
>> I have the best of both worlds now.
>> 
>> 
>> The product is called ocrxtr.  You should go to www.vividata.com.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> Terry
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