Open Source OCR Packages? 11
MoonCat asks: "Are there any Open Sourced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) packages available which are comparable to their commercial counterparts in terms of recognition performance? "
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No Such thing ... at least not alive ... (Score:1)
Qui-ne-faut (Score:2)
How about payware? (Score:1)
Of course, Open Source is prefered, but right now I don't know much about the field, so couldn't hack on it for my self very much anyway.
Re:How about payware? (Score:1)
I don't know, but someone does... (Score:2)
USPS mail:
http://www.pnwsoft.com/linux.htm
I imagine John Taves, the consultant behind this
masterpiece, could tell you a thing or two about
OCR on Linux. His email address is at the bottom
of the article.
Having worked for years on OCR, trust me when I
say the success of this project is a minor miracle!
OCR position, that was me! :-) (Score:2)
The department of Computer Science at Waikato University [waikato.ac.nz] in New Zealand is offering the position. It's a great place to live, they pay well and you get to write GPL'd software. They even pay to fly you there!
If you want more information write to Professor Ian Witten [mailto] and ask about the GNU OCR job! It's a University so they're not after people with 10's of years experience, they're after hackers that can get stuff done
Re:How about payware? (Score:1)
http://www.vividata.com [vividata.com]
They have just upgraded their OCRShop for Linux to version 4.5, and it is compatible with RedHat 6.0 (So I'm assuming it would probably work on any GLIBC 2.1 based system) Good luck!
Re:OCR position, that was me! :-) (Score:1)
Waikato is working on many interesting things, including an OOP called Sather (also a GNU project). I would love to fly down there to work on my Master's for a couple years.
But as with many things, I just don't have the time. I suppose I need to work harder so that I can retire early.