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Tip: Optical character recognition with Kooka |
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Tuesday, 03 January 2006 |
If you use Linux, or another free operating system, and need optical character recognition (OCR) software, be prepared for a challenge. OCR is a tricky problem on any computing platform -- both because it is conceptually hard, and because the task does not lend itself to simple, easy-to-use interfaces.
The best of the lot available today is Kooka, the KDE environment's default scanning application. Kooka uses the GNU project's Ocrad as its OCR engine. It supports a wide variety of scanners via the SANE library, for when you are acquiring images as you work.
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