[clug] OCR software

[Brad Hards]

On Friday 13 February 2009 11:47:59 am keith sayers wrote:
>         I am looking for some OCR software to read english language
> typescipt into editable text and work on Suse 11.1.  Sourceforge offers a
> choice of 74 though only a few of them seem potentially suitable.  Would
> anyone know any of them well enough to speak for or against please?
I've only looked at ocropus (and its underlying recognition engine, which is 
tesseract). It isn't a finished product, but it does appear to work well for 
some cases. It is a pain to get to build though.

Are you actually working off scanned pages, or off a PDF?

Brad