OCR ...is anyone having luck with this?

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 16:32 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> I'm dinking with gocr and kooka. I'm not having much luck or fun with
> it. Has anyone been able to successfully do OCR?? If so, with what tools
> and settings. I'm receiving a pile of printed documents from our
> Non-Profit that need to be made into computer files. I'm sure not
> wanting to have to type it all in. Thanks for any and all advice. Ric
----
I use tesseract

http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9676

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20061210115516438

works really well

Craig