Comments on: OCR choices

Question: OCR choices

stam_broker — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:32:33 -0800

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).

By: PowerCat

PowerCat — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:20:25 -0800

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openocr/
It's free but I'm not impressed by its quality. I tried it on handwritten, though. so give it a shot.

By: PowerCat

PowerCat — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:20:56 -0800

Wrong link :P
http://www.simpleocr.com/

By: tmcw

tmcw — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:34:25 -0800

The current top pick is Tesseract, which is backed by Google.

By: tmcw

tmcw — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:34:45 -0800

on google code...

By: rajbot

rajbot — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:42:26 -0800

You don't want Tesseract, you want OCRopus (also a Google-backed project) which combines Tesseract with a layout analyzer and a language model.

By: JackFlash

JackFlash — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:49:18 -0800

Just about any scanner or multi-function printer you buy with a scanner will include free OCR software.

By: miniape

miniape — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:50:46 -0800

Another, i've never tried, is GOCR

By: svenx

svenx — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:20:37 -0800

If you have the latest version of MS One Note on your computer, it does a good job.

By: digitalis

digitalis — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:46:00 -0800

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.

By: stam_broker

stam_broker — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:04:04 -0800

digitalis: The project I'm doing is low priority so I ended up using nothing, though I may give SimpleOCR a try.