On 7/28/10 10:46 AM, Andy Kelly wrote: > I'm working on scanning some documents in a collection and then preforming > OCR on the documents. Thus far, I've used Adobe Acrobat Pro's OCR function > with some success but the machines I'm working on are fairly old Pentium 4 > Dell boxes, this makes opening 600 DPI scans painful and preforming OCR an > entirely valid excuse for a long coffee break. > > As you might expect, I'm looking for a way to speed up this process at the > OCR end of things, since the scanning can only move so quickly. I'm > wondering if any of you have experience with any open OCR solutions such as: > Tesseract-OCR<http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/> or > ocropus<http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/>. > At a glance, Tesseract seems to be further along in development. Any other > suggestions on how best to approach this sort of task would be appreciated > if you've done similar work. I've used Tesseract quite a bit but moved on to https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux Cuneiform OCR software which used to be top rated Russian OCR that was been open-sourced. This is especially useful for non-English languages. ./fxk > > I've got my own Ubuntu Server I'm planning on evaluating one or both of > these on, as much for my own interest as the project's or the > organization's. Since I'm an unpaid part-time intern and the only one who's > working on this project, I'm willing to learn to do things the hard way so > they're easier in the long run. > > Thanks for any suggestions or advice you may be able to offer. > -- Maintainer's Motto: If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.