From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 09:36:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9195D1065672 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:36:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234C98FC1B for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:36:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.3/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id n0S9afSp023124 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:36:41 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 164 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5463F89D1F for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:36:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id 1D0C051; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:36:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:36:37 +0100 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20090128093637.GA66404@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.164]); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:36:41 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/8914/Wed Jan 28 07:40:00 2009 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at jchkmail2.jussieu.fr with ID 49802729.004 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 49802729.004/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 49802729.004 on jchkmail2.jussieu.fr : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.046 -> S=0.046 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham Cc: Subject: Re: OCR... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:36:43 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > well, i'm ashamed to admit that i've put at least a dozen hours in > trying, then re-re-retrying to OCR a imaged pdf file with as many > open source ocr packages as i can find. I have seen good results with tesseract which is in the ports and free. Otherwise with OmniPage for commercial software (it runs under wine). -- Michel TALON