[BRLTTY] OCR software

Terry D. Cudney terry at braille.uwo.ca
Mon Sep 5 12:30:04 EDT 2005


Hi,

	Take a look at:

	ftp.linux-speakup.org/pub/linux/goodies/xtrclilite5.5.5_README.bz2

	This is commercial software, but the manufacturer has made special provisions for blind users.

	HTH,

	--terry

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:31:27PM +0200, Adrian P. van Bloois wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to read stuff via a scanner.
> On Redhat linux I use sane-backends with imageMaker.
> The OCR software I tried is ocrad gocr and claraocr, but it's very
> difficult to get good results.
> Can anyone suggest other command-line OCR packages?
> Or provice tips how to do this under Linux???
> Thanks in advance
> 	Adrian
> 
> 
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