Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:36:06 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: best OCR scanner?? Message-ID: <20050902183606.GA65669@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050902074627.GA73570@thought.org> References: <20050902030726.GA71012@thought.org> <20050902074627.GA73570@thought.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:46:27AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:07:26PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > > > > I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright > > book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is Any scanner that works with SANE (http://www.sane-project.org/) scanner support framework should do. For supported hardware see: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html Epson seems to have the most supported scanners. I've got an Epson Perfection 1650, which works fine. > > and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR > > software in recent years. This book has few footnotes > > or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. There are several free OCR programs. I've used gocr (http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ and no, that's not a typo) and ocrad (http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html) Ocrad works ok, but you'll definitely have to correct errors, depending on the quality of the pictures/scans. HTH, Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDGJuWEnfvsMMhpyURAvOoAJ9/DJ0wPNs/OXgWkXZKi8hc/zohdgCfV0as JagnRiA5PJaQyjnpVcDCHWk= =263w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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