Hi,

It wasn't a recommendation since I never try it, but I've heard a lot of
good about tesseract. It was currently developed by Google, but I don't know
if they use it.

Some link :
 - http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_%28software%29

Hope this help,

Emmanuel Di Pretoro

2009/2/3 Alberto Accomazzi <[log in to unmask]>

> Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I was wondering if any of you clever
> fellows have a recommendation for an OCR package, possibly with a native
> linux port.  I know about OCRopus but I have a feeling that commercial
> products still have a significant edge over public domain packages.  So what
> are you using and/or do you know what the big guys (google, IA, microsoft)
> are using?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Alberto
>
>
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