OCR Applications

[shane]

Anybody know of any active open source OCR projects for Linux? I am playing around with GOCR but am not getting great read rates.

Thanks in advance.

[Jeff Sadowski]

A couple of things I found on freshmeat look interesting go to http://freshmeat.net
type ocr into the search :-)

[shane]

Thank you.

[kosmosik]

there are some but frankly they are not Windows equivalent:

Windows ones just let you push OCR button on your scanner, click few OKs in wizard and have scanned document as Word file (usually).

Linux ones are console apps (gocr f.e.) which are not too comfortable for office/home (most common use) but they are really nice for hacking - you know like bypassing captchas and so on...

so no. there is no normal, user friendly OCR application for Linux. sadly.

[shane]

kosmosik - I am looking for a decent open source OCR engine that my company can contribute to for business use. We are currently paying around $40,000 USD per license for the OCR engine that we use, and have no access to fix problems that we know exist in the engine code. I am the SQA Manager for a data entry company that OCR's a few hundred thousand documents per day.

[kosmosik]

so if you wan't to develop some solution in house (it may be cheaper than $40,000 annualy) check out freshmeat.net and do some research on OCR... AFAIR there are some commercial OCR systems (but maybe cheaper?) for Linux. there is also gocr and jocr... but they are in fact console apps, a bit crude but it may be blessing for f.e. batched operation...

[Jeff Sadowski]

Is there a good one yet? anyone know?

[GL1800]

What is it that's built in to xsane, is that GOCR?