OCR...

[Andrew Gould]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:08:55PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote:
> > >so what is the best commercial/shareware that can read a 10pt-font
> > >file?  (( also, when i have time to get back into actually hacking,
> > >this [[turning imaged pdf into OCR'able ascii or 8859-1]] is giong
> > >to
> > >be a first target.  any idea which team i should go with.  gOCR
> > >looks
> > >best so far to me.
> >
> > AABBYY Finereader - Omnipage haven't been able to catch it in several
> > years either feature or qualitywise. No idea if Finereader runs under
> > emulator though.  If the file is already a PDF and 72 DPI with text as
> > graphics most of the damage has already been done, and it will be
> > extremely hard to OCR.
> >
>
>        well, damage is probably done.  how can i check the resolution?
>        i tried to increase it by creating huge ppm and tif files, but
>        then that's really absurd since there can only be just so much
>        data per image.  i _could_ try xv and jpeg and smoothing image to
>        refine, but too much hassle.
>
>        (i used gocr -m 130 and "saw" the glyphs it (presumably) saw.
>        seemed pretty much okay to my eyes.  but then i'm not a computer
>        program.  [MAYBE :)]
>
>        gary
>
>
>
> > -Reko
> >
>
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At one point in time, the Abby folks were offering a back-end that ran on
FreeBSD.  I tried to get the free download; but it never happened.  (They
misplaced my signed, faxed license agreement and I finally got tired of the
back-and-forth prerequisite communication.)

Abby also no longer supports Mac OS X.  I use an old version and like it a
lot.

Andrew