[sane-devel] OCR software

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Greg Furmanek <greg at esdlc.com> writes:

> Hi gang :-)
>
> I have been lurking on the list for quite some time.  There are a
> lot of good info I got from you guys.  I am just wondering if you
> have any recommendations when it comes to open source OCR libraries.
> It would be nice if they were portable to win32 but not necessary.
> I am mostly interested in the recognition algorithms and techniques.

I am only aware of the following bits of free software.  Have not used
any of them.

  gocr  - (sorry no URL handy)
  hocr  - http://hocr.berlios.de/
  ocrad - http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html

BTW, hocr-gtk says it's for Hebrew OCR.

Hope this helps,
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