Re: ocr

Bob van der Poel (bvdpoel@kootenay.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:24:01 -0600

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Glenn wrote:
>
> Bob van der Poel writes:
> ^
> ^Anyone working on any OCR software?
>
> http://www.vividata.com makes scanshop for linux for $795. It uses
> the Omnipage engine and looks to be quite good. a free trial is
> available.

As someone else aready said...that's a lot of $ for someone used
to free software. I certainly couldn't justify that much for the use
I'll be putting it to (of course, if you are using this for a business
pupose then it is not a big deal). BTW, it is nice to see commercial
support growing for Linux.

> ^Is OCR all that difficult to do?
>
> yes. very.
> glenn

I'm going to follow a few of the free development and see what happens.
Plus, learn to type faster!

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