Re: ocr

William T Wilson (fluffy@dunadan.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 15:29:55 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Bob van der Poel wrote:

> Sorry, but I know this is completely on topic. Just don't know where

I hate those on-topic posts. ;)

> Anyone working on any OCR software? I've to occassional need and have

I'm not aware of any, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you can
find OCR software for Windows or (better) DOS that will take a simple
input graphics file and perform OCR on it, you could scan it with SANE and
then run it through the DOS-based OCR program running under one of the
emulators.

> Is OCR all that difficult to do?

Yes, it is perhaps the most difficult kind of software that it is possible
to write. :(

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