OCR choices
July 10, 2007 9:32 AM Subscribe
What's out there as far as affordable OCR software? Are there any good SourceForge choices? I don't use OCR enough to justify paying the typical $150 prices I keep running across. I'd be fine with something that just OCRs a pre-existing file (like a TIFF) or runs on the command line (Windows).
The current top pick is Tesseract, which is backed by Google.
posted by tmcw at 10:34 AM on July 10, 2007
posted by tmcw at 10:34 AM on July 10, 2007
You don't want Tesseract, you want OCRopus (also a Google-backed project) which combines Tesseract with a layout analyzer and a language model.
posted by rajbot at 10:42 AM on July 10, 2007
posted by rajbot at 10:42 AM on July 10, 2007
Just about any scanner or multi-function printer you buy with a scanner will include free OCR software.
posted by JackFlash at 11:49 AM on July 10, 2007
posted by JackFlash at 11:49 AM on July 10, 2007
If you have the latest version of MS One Note on your computer, it does a good job.
posted by svenx at 12:20 PM on July 10, 2007
posted by svenx at 12:20 PM on July 10, 2007
The original poster mentioned windows, while the information on OCRopus says it's only being developed and tested for Ubuntu until 2008.
Disappointing, since I found this by looking for OCR software--I wonder what the original poster ended up using.
posted by digitalis at 8:46 PM on August 17, 2007
Disappointing, since I found this by looking for OCR software--I wonder what the original poster ended up using.
posted by digitalis at 8:46 PM on August 17, 2007
Response by poster: digitalis: The project I'm doing is low priority so I ended up using nothing, though I may give SimpleOCR a try.
posted by stam_broker at 1:04 PM on September 9, 2007
posted by stam_broker at 1:04 PM on September 9, 2007
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It's free but I'm not impressed by its quality. I tried it on handwritten, though. so give it a shot.
posted by PowerCat at 10:20 AM on July 10, 2007