Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2004 12:36, Keith Hyland wrote:
>>>there is ocrad, (http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html) although i
>>havent used it, and cant vouch for it
>>>>or, if you have sane and KDE, there is Kooka
>>(http://www.kde.org/apps/kooka/doc/faq.php)
>>> Thanks, I'll look at those.
>> I remember in my youth there was a very good OCR program
> on the unmentionable system,
> but I guess one has to pay vast sums of money for that.
>
I have seen many OCR programs, main Microsoft-based systems [where I'd
assume more development goes into them]. However I have never been
impressed with one. Fine for doing a page or two, where you have the
time to go back and check spellings and so fourth, but on any sort of
large scale scan job it's unfeasable.
Regardless of money, I don't think OCR is advanced enough yet [as I also
said 5 years ago sadly], hopefully sometime in future.
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