[clug] OCR on linux

[Stephen Jenkin]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Gary Woodman wrote:

> --- Brad Hards <bradh at frogmouth.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 20 November 2005 23:43 pm, Stephen Jenkin wrote:
> > > Found a FC2 reference to 'kooka' - RPM doesn't seem to be in FC3.
> > Kooka is a scanning / OCR front end. You still need a backend (like
> > gocr or 
> > ocrad, but there is also a non-free option - KADMOS 
> > (http://rerecognition.com/)).
> 
> There is also clara:
> http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/claraocr/
> It is in Debian. Couldn't say how good it is.

Thanks.  
Found the homepage - source version there is Dec-2003.
Last update on freshmeat is 6 months ago...

Program needs to be trained on symbols.
Program segfaults when I show it my data :-)

cheers
sj

> 
> Gary
> 


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