[kinda ot] OCR

[Mathew Pole]

Tesseract OCR, http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/, supported by 
Google might be worth a look.

The Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV 
Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but 
it is probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines 
available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color image and 
output text. A tiff reader is built in that will read uncompressed TIFF 
images, or libtiff can be added to read compressed images.

Regards,
    Mathew


Ben Kramer wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a OCR program that runs under either Linux, Win, 
> or OS-X ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben.

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