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OCR Software ?

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hi,

i have scanned two documents and saved them as tiffs. Now i like to get them recognized.

what programm could i use ?

i ve tried kooka, but in the config it tells me, that there are no OCR binaries...

I use Bianca final

thanx in advance

Henning :)
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Post by nick »

Hi
In synaptic you have gocr, clara. ocrad (and probably some more)

A good article here: http://groundstate.ca/ocr

Nick
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Post by Husse »

There are some OCR programs in Synaptics - take a look
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Post by hsoltau »

thank you both Husse and Nick,

that was easy :
i installed gocr via synaptic and kooka now finds the binary and can use it :lol:

thanks for the quick help
have a nice day
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There must be something wrong with the forum. Nick posted almost an hour before me, but when I posted I saw this as unaswered...
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Post by Boo »

yer yer husse.

you just love posting. :wink:

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Post by nick »

There must be something wrong with the forum. Nick posted almost an hour before me, but when I posted I saw this as unaswered...
Not really Husse, it's because I post faster than light :) hence the time difference, now back to my Tardis

Nick
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Re: OCR Software ?

Post by Elisa »

hsoltau wrote:...
For OCR I can suggest this cool sw (not in synaptic repo yet :roll: , must install from the URL):
YAGF -> http://symmetrica.net/cuneiform-linux/yagf-en.html
Enjoy 8)
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Post by Elisa »

Good news for those who cannot compile YAGF source stuff - get the .deb file and run :wink:

https://launchpad.net/~ferramroberto/+a ... ld/1773239
yagf_0.8.1~lffl~lucid~ppa3_i386.deb
(works on lucid as well as maverick system)
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