Re: What about OCR ?

[Christophe Combelles <ccomb free fr>]

Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 19:37 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 09:43 +0200, "Alpe.Nusslé" wrote:
> >
> > > I'm french and I cannot undurstand a long text in english, so I try to 
> > > send you this request.
> > >
> > > Can we get an OCR function (reconnaissance de caractères en français) 
> > > with GIMP ?
>
>
> Unfortunately I have yet to find an open source or Free OCR program
> that works reliably for me.  The best I have used is Finereader
> made by http://abbyy.com/ but it is commercial, and I think runs
> only under Microsoft Windows

Maybe with WINE?
I have once been able to use SimpleOCR under WINE.
(This is a another proprietary free-of-charge OCR program for windows.)

http://www.framasoft.net/article1244.html
http://www.simpleocr.com

regards,
Christophe