[aclug-L] Re: OCR Success

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 22 March 2003 01:02 pm, you wrote:
> Probably a little overkill, but does you scanner also allow you to
> make enlarged copies, or increase the focal size of the scanned
> image? If so, bump it up a few percent, and see if it gets any
> better.

Thanks for the suggestion, John.  I had tried that with the gimp - 
doubled the size.  But it came out the same, character for character, 
as before.

I'll play around with it more when I get time.
bruce

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> 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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