On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 11:01 +1100, Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 28 November 2013 08:14, Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm thinking of installing OCRFeeder into my Lucid system, as soon as I get off work tonight, and can figure out how to add it's repository through Synaptic.
Any comments on personal experiences with this and other OCR programs?
Upload 'em all to Google Drive and let their superior OCR algorithms work for you, for free? https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?hl=en
Alternatively, Tesseract is probably the best open-source OCR software. Not coincidentally, a lot of the work on it came from Google. https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
tjc
To throw a curve ball, the best OCR I've used is in the CamScan app in android. Use the camera to scan the document and then specify the page size, say, A4 then run the OCR and the app indexes the page. When you need to find a doc pick a word which may be in the document and the app will search for the page in its indexed repository in the phone. Very slick. Andrew Greig