OCR in Fedora?

[Valent Turkovic]

2008/7/21 joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2008/7/21 joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody do OCR using software available in Fedora? Which ones do
>>>>> you use? How do you use them?
>>>>> I saw an article about OCRopus [1] and how great app it is but there
>>>>> is no ocropus in fedora currently.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>>
>>>>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071024-hands-on-with-googles-ocropus-open-source-scanning-software.html
>>>>
>>>> I use gocr-0.45-2.fc9.i386
>>>>
>>>> I think it comes from the fedora repo.
>>>
>>> Tesseract is better:
>>>
>>> yum install tesseract
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
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>>
>> Hi Joachim and Paul,
>> do gocr and tesseract have GUIs? How are you using them? Do you get
>> formated text or just plain text file? Do gocr and tesseract recognise
>> colums? Is it possible to get formated OpenOffice Writer document that
>> matches the original scanned page?
>>
>> I read the article I posed the link to about OCRopus and it seams that
>> uses tesseract but it somehow improved.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Valent.
>>
>>
> Hi Valent,
>
> gocr is ia simple CLI which reads from a file containing text as graphics
> and writes only plain text to stdout.
> It has no features such as the WIN$ ocr tools.
>
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I guess that it the strenght of OCRopus because it should have that
feature if I'm not mistaken. Unfortunatelly OCRopus is not in Fedore
repos so I can't test it. I hope it gets there soon.

Valent.

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