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Open Source OCR Packages?

Posted by Cliff on from the "o-c-r"-or-"o-c-a" dept.

MoonCat asks: "Are there any Open Sourced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) packages available which are comparable to their commercial counterparts in terms of recognition performance? "

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  1. Qui-ne-faut by Ray+Dassen · · Score: 2

    There's Qui-ne-faut. I haven't studied it in detail, but on a trial run it was at least isolating character shapes well (though the actual identification of characters from them left much to be desired - probably there's some training needed).

  2. I don't know, but someone does... by Pauly · · Score: 2

    Check out the project that reads all of our
    USPS mail:

    http://www.pnwsoft.com/linux.htm

    I imagine John Taves, the consultant behind this
    masterpiece, could tell you a thing or two about
    OCR on Linux. His email address is at the bottom
    of the article.

    Having worked for years on OCR, trust me when I
    say the success of this project is a minor miracle!

  3. OCR position, that was me! :-) by Stuart · · Score: 2

    Hi all,

    The department of Computer Science at Waikato University in New Zealand is offering the position. It's a great place to live, they pay well and you get to write GPL'd software. They even pay to fly you there!

    If you want more information write to Professor Ian Witten and ask about the GNU OCR job! It's a University so they're not after people with 10's of years experience, they're after hackers that can get stuff done :-)