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On 12/11/05, Chris White <chriswhite@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 12 November 2005 18:17, Jimmy Rosen wrote: |
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> > However, I haven't found a good OCR program yet. That is the major |
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> > hurdle. Searchability is the really important thing. The space saving |
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> > and portability is nice enough though, for the moment. |
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> > I heard that Adobe has a windoze only software that can do this |
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> > reasonably well, but I haven't researched it further. |
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> Not sure about Linux OCR. I know that you can get ScanSoft or Paper Port for |
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> windows. Paper Port is what I hear most people recommend. |
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Alas, alac, there is no OSS OCR software even worth installing. They |
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are all rubbish. Abbyy has version 6 of Finereader under linux but it |
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is only the server version and costs an arm and a leg. I have looked |
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high and low, as it is what I do for work and pretty much the only |
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reason I can't get linux into our scanning operation (it would be nice |
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to have drivers for production-scale scanners but at least on the OCR |
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machines would be a start...). |
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Sorry! |
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Antoine |
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ps. I would be keen to work on a project (as long as the boss didn't |
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find out!) that works towards having a decent home a to z CMS |
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system... |
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This is where I should put some witty comment. |
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