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Re: [LUG] OCR

 

Adrian Midgley wrote:
> Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>   
>> Google are sponsoring a new OCR project that sounds exciting...
>>
>> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html
>>
>> still early on development but might be useful :D
>>
>>   
>>     
> Concur.
> I tried it though, and couldn't get anything useful out of it.
>
>
> OCR is one of the gaps I think.
>
>   
Have you tried Kooka? It's a scan and OCR app which worked the last time
I tried it (admittedly a long time ago).
It's a KDE app so with Ubuntu you may need the KDE libraries.

Keith


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