Re: [orca-list] OO and ORC

[Milton <milton tomaatnet nl>]

Hello Herman

Thanks for the tips. I will try it out.
Milton

Op dinsdag 26-08-2008 om 22:11 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Hermann:
> On 26.08.2008 21:56, Milton wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > Is there an accessible OCR program with Orca? I tried to put text on my
> > screen from a scanner. My system contains Ubuntu 8.04.1 and Orca 2.23.6.
> > I tried in OpenOffice to import from the scanner but it only import the
> > text as an image.
>
> Ubuntu comes with no OCR. You might try out Tesseract, but it is a text 
> based program, and it needs sane and sane-utils installed.
> Teh configuration cannot be described in general, because it depends on 
> your scanner.
> Note: The results cannot compete with those of sophisticated Windows 
> OCRs, such as Finereader or Omnipage.
> Hermann