Re: [hylafax-users] route incoming faxes

[Joe Phillips <jaiger@acm.org>]

I have in my web browser bookmarks, a link to JOCR, a GPL OCR package.
I have no idea what the status of it is but you may want to check it
out.

I'm pretty sure I found it the last time someone on this list was looking
for OCR packages.

The URL is: http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

-joe

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:37:20PM -0000, Lee Sitton wrote:
> You're right about the Clara OCR project. However, I understand that this is
> very much in a development stage at present. I installed this on my HylaFAX
> server but found that the OCR quality was very poor such that it couldn't
> recognise a very clear fax which contained just a few words in various
> standard fonts. There's no way this could be used in a real life environment
> at the moment.
> 
> We use Omnipage Pro. 11 here as our standard OCR package and it is 90%+
> accurate. Unfortunately, it is a Windows application and I haven't found a
> way of running it from the command line such that I could get it to OCR
> incoming faxes automatically. For development purposes, I have been OCR'ing
> them manually.
> 
> Lee Sitton


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