Abiword gets experimental OCR scanning support
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| An experimental Abiword plugin built on Ocropus and GEGL brings integrated
| OCR scanning support to the popular open source word processing program. The
| Abiword plugin is being developed by GNOME-scan creator Etienne Bersac.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/08/06/abiword-gets-experimental-ocr-scanning-support
This shows the power of Free software. Just dragging and dropping components,
without incompatibilities or licensing issues.
Related:
Linux OCR: A review of free optical character recognition software
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| The good news is that there are solutions available on Linux right
| now which interpret documents at up to 99% accuracy.
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http://groundstate.ca/ocr
open source document analysis and OCR system
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| OCRopus is development is sponsored by Google and is initially
| intended for high-throughput, high-volume document conversion
| efforts. We expect that it will also be an excellent OCR system
| for many other applications.
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http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/
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