OT: Does usable free OCR software exist?

OT: Does usable free OCR software exist?

Posted Aug 25, 2006 19:25 UTC (Fri) by leoc (subscriber, #39773)
In reply to: OT: Does usable free OCR software exist? by debacle
Parent article: Fighting image spam

One thing you might want to try is to "posterize" the image you are scanning. I wrote a perl script to use gocr to scan my satellite television source for channels that I do not receive (they are the ones that come up with a screen of text that says something to that effect), and I found that I had to posterize the output to 2 colours (black text on white background) before gocr could read any text off them.

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