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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:08:55 +0200
From:      "Reko Turja" <reko.turja@liukuma.net>
To:        "Gary Kline" <kline@thought.org>, "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: OCR...
Message-ID:  <319D789FD18042DBB7A19571DA26E5AE@rivendell>
In-Reply-To: <20090128040802.GA94236@thought.org>
References:  <20090128040802.GA94236@thought.org>

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> so what is the best commercial/shareware that can read a 10pt-font
> file?  (( also, when i have time to get back into actually hacking,
> this [[turning imaged pdf into OCR'able ascii or 8859-1]] is giong=20
> to
> be a first target.  any idea which team i should go with.  gOCR=20
> looks
> best so far to me.

AABBYY Finereader - Omnipage haven't been able to catch it in several=20
years either feature or qualitywise. No idea if Finereader runs under=20
emulator though.  If the file is already a PDF and 72 DPI with text as=20
graphics most of the damage has already been done, and it will be=20
extremely hard to OCR.

-Reko=20




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