Doug <[email protected]> writes: > On 08/25/2017 08:31 PM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > > Hi All, > How do I setup xsane to use the tesseract OCR engine? > I see gocr under preferences->setup->ocr. > Yours Sincerely > Stephen Grant Brown. > > Unless it has been vastly improved, you might as well copy the document by > hand! Finding and fixing all the mistakes is not worth the > trouble! > Abbyy for Windows does an excellent job. One of only two programs I will boot > Windows for. (The other one is a phono-to-CD program.)
My experience OCRing a 16 page document with tesseract last spring was quite good. I didn't try to set xsane up to do it (as I thought it would be a *long* time before I did it again), I scanned the document to ppm files, sent them to tesseract, put the output of tesseract into a .txt file, and cleaned up from there. While it wasn't perfect, it was far better than retyping the whole thing would have been. -- "Erwin, have you seen the cat?" -- Mrs. Shrödinger
