Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd May 2007 23:45 UTC, submitted by Austin
"The one 'hole' in my workflow has been OCR. For years, people have been able to scan a document and have it converted into real text. One of my old printers even came with OCR software included - for Windows of course. But when I've really needed OCR, I've just assumed that there were no high quality packages available for Linux. Recently I decided to find out for myself (a complete OCR virgin) what is available, how to use it, and what the results are like. I installed every free OCR package I could find, and systematically tested them. They all work very differently, so I tried to design a simple test for my specific needs."
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RE[3]: OCR is not a problem
by Havin_it on Fri 25th May 2007 11:46
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I don't see anything on that page to suggest that the FineReader Engine is available under a F/OSS license. I think if you develop anything that uses it, you're gonna be paying them for the privilege. In the OP's case, that means paying a licensing fee *and* hiring a coder to put a nice GUI on it.
RE[4]: OCR is not a problem
by Temcat on Sat 26th May 2007 11:24
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If we had found one F/OSS tool that was close to doing the job, we would have gladly payed for extra work.
What do you think about this?
http://www.abbyy.com/sdk/?param=59956
ABBYY are the makers of FineReader, so this is serious stuff. Yes, this is only a backend (SDK), but writing a GUI frontend for a full-featured backend is easier than recreating essential backend features requiring tremendous expertise.