what are optical character recognition softwares in ubuntu ?

shridhar005 · 04-08-2009, 05:00 AM

hi friends

Im using Ubuntu 8.10 with 1gb RAM , would anybody suggest good graphical optical character recognition i.e. ocr software for ubuntu .
I have tried tessaract , gocr , ocre but they are not good enough , lack in compatibility with various format . suggest any good software ..

pwc101 · 04-08-2009, 05:24 AM

I've just stumbled upon OCRopus. I'm looking into building it for Slackware, and it looks good from what I've seen:

http://sites.google.com/site/ocropus/

They build on Ubuntu and it should be straight forward to compile if you follow their instructions. If you google around, you might find some precompiled .debs to install.

pwc101 · 04-09-2009, 11:01 AM

Apologies; I've since looked into OCRopus and it's still very much in alpha, so it's probably not much use at the moment. I can't even find any info on how to use it!

Perhaps kooka might be more appropriate?

http://kooka.kde.org/

It should be in the Ubuntu repositories.

farslayer · 04-09-2009, 11:32 AM

Might want to peruse this thread..

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-ocrad-701672/

shridhar005 · 04-20-2009, 09:06 AM

I found out Kooka from kubuntu is best till as it is able to read various formats , however it lacks capacity to recognize cursive fonts. Does anybody knows how to add a new font in kooka .

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-20-2009, 09:23 AM

Have you ever heard of converting between image formats ? Using something like imagemagick ? I would think that would solve any format issues you might have.

farslayer · 04-20-2009, 11:54 AM

Responded in your other thread, specific to the new question.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ftware-720402/