[mdlug] [NEWBIE QUESTION] (dis)recommendations for OCR

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Robert Meier

> What software do people (dis)recommend for optical character 
> recognition?

 My limited experience (from a few years ago), plus anecdotal reports
I've seen since, indicate that Linux OCR is, at best, immature.

 The most positive report I've come across recently was this one, for
Tesseract OCR, which was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005:

 http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20061210115516438

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                  (313) 227-2317

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