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Re: The best OCR system is now available on Linux

  • Subject: Re: The best OCR system is now available on Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:40:10 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [ goposter@xxxxxxxxxx ] on Thursday 15 June 2006 09:12 \__

> What a difference a couple of years make...
> 
> When I first inquired this company about Linux support, they were not
> very enthusiastic about it. Now they got the "Penguin Fever" and they
> tell me that are getting lots of requests from Linux users.
> 
> The current versions are 8.0 for Windows and 6.0 for Linux, but the
> plan is to jump to 8.0 Linux and from then on, countinue with the same
> version number on both platforms.
> 
>    http://www.abbyy.com/sdk/?param=28804
> 
> -RFH

There are already some fine programs that are both Free and Open Source.
Frankly, having fallen to proprietary traps in the past, I would rather go
for one of the projects listed below.

        http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/15/1848236

OCR was once said to be a field with deficiencies on the GNU/Linux platform.
It is no longer quite the case though.

Best wishes,

Roy

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