Re: [tlug] Linux Kanji Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave M G <Dave> writes:

    Dave> But you never know. Can't hurt to just double check. Are
    Dave> there any Linux options for kanji OCR?

Heh.  I've been asking that for 9 years.  As of Dec 2005, the answer
was that there was no decent open source OCR for linux period.  For
many years the front of the pack was gOCR, but I never got decent
results from it for purely numerical data---typing it myself was
faster and more accurate.

There are a few plausible candidates on freshmeat.net, including
kognition (for KDE), libgocr, Clara OCR, Kadmos, and GNU ocrad.

sourceforge.net has a couple more that might be relevant, a "mini-ocr"
for Chinese and something called joshi.  But both are single-developer
projects, which is not going to be enough for a decent OCR (especially
not for kanji).

Of all of those, only GNU ocrad claims better than beta or to be
addressed to anyone but developers.  However, it's a "console
(text-based)" application according to the Freshmeat blurb!

I think the right answer here is to go with whatever software your
scanner provides.


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