Re: [orca-list] Is it possible to install Omnipage or Fine Reader on a Ubuntu machine?

["Krishnakant Mane" <hackingkk gmail com>]

hi.


On 16/11/2008, Charlie Dorff <cy41169 yahoo com> wrote:
> Hi...
> Does anyone know if it's possible to install Omnipage or Fine Reader on a
> Ubuntu machine and if it's accessible for blind. I heard that both Omnipage
> and Fine reader are good OCR pragrams. Thanks.
> Charlie
They are good programs but they don't respect the user's freedom.
They are proprietory softwares for one thing and they run on the
biggest "virus " called windows.  So tesseract is a good option on
GNU/linux and you can install it on ubuntu as well.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.