OCR for Slackware
 

I am running Slackware 14 and 14.1, and am wondering if anyone can suggest OCR packages which are free for non-commercial use.

The system is running xsane for scanning, but much of what would be OCR'd is already scanned.

Thanks. The most recent postings I found were almost two years old, and I figured allot may have changed.

Hya

I ran into similar situation the other day. I keep my eyes open, but so far no good news.

regretfully

Member Response
 

Hi,

You can look at similar threads(scroll down within a thread): OCR Software and Slackware to hopefully get you started on a trail to find newer packages for Slackware. That thread is only two years old but you can look at Alien_Bob's site.

Plus look at: http://slackbuilds.org/ for OCR packages.

Hope this helps.

I recommend tesseract, it is the best OCR I have tried for Linux. There are probably also commercial options if you really need them.

Are you running tesseract presently, and with which Slackware distribution?

I ran it in the past, but there's a slackbuild for it:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14...arch=tesseract

There are also GUI frontends for it:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.../gimagereader/
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/graphics/yagf/
http://www.pattern-lab.de/index.html

http://code.google.com/p/linux-intel...-ocr-solution/