[aclug-L] OCR Success

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

I needed and ocr program several months ago and tried 'clara'.  It was 
very disappointing, being unable to identify five percent of the 
characters in a scanned document, even after several hours trying to 
train it.

Today I found 'gocr' and played with it for several hours.  With no 
training, it can identify probably 99% of a 12 pt. ariel font document 
- not perfect, but a definite time saver.  Gocr is not too good on 
smaller text and my scanner only goes to 300x300 dpi.  In a few 
paragraphs from Linux Mag it didn't identify a single lower case 't'.  
There were about 40 of them and most were identified as being the 
symbol for the Euro.  A few times through it with sed s/EUR/t/ made it 
readable, but just barely.  A scanned newspaper is not much better.

So I got  an ocr program and learned a little sed.  Love my linux more 
every day.
bruce
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