Version 5 of OCR

Updated 2006-11-08 11:13:15 by dkf

Optical Character Recognition -- typically the art of teaching a computer to read printed text (provided as scanned images).

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Three principal open-source engines:

  • GOCR [L1 ] (appears to have a Tcl/Tk frontend)
  • Ocrad [L2 ] (GNU)
  • Tesseract OCR [L3 ] (originally Hewlett-Packard, but now released as open source)

Recommended proprietary packages:

  • Vividata OCR Shop XTR Lite [L4 ]
  • VueScan [L5 ]

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