# Re: OCR Software..?!

becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 22:12:26 +0100 (MET)

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Hi !

> I started on an OCR program in July, but only got the
> interface and some of the processing done before getting distracted by
> other projects. See http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ocr/ . If
> you want to start a focused OCR effort, I'd certainly help.

There is XOCR. Unfortunately the last public release I had seen is using
inferior algorithms and detection ratio is not really good.

However it could be used as a starting point.

> There's a commercial OCR program for Linux described at
> http://www.mentalix.com, but it doesn't sit on top of SANE.

Hmm - maybe we should contact the folks there. They'd probably appreciate
our project a lot ...

CU,Andy

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