Re: [Gnumed-devel] OCR on Linux

[Jim Busser]

On 2010-03-15, at 9:44 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> For good quality 
> scans some of the Free and Open Source OCR engines can provide good results 
> but for anyone having the cash and wanting the text of a scan (e.g. for the 
> document archive)

Not that I have yet tried it, but I had thought that what is already available 
"open" for OCR -- Tesseract OCR -- fed from, say

        gscan2pdf (for individual document processing)
        eikazo (batch mode)

should do a pretty good job, no?

Or are you talking an app that would slickly insert the text as a layer within 
a PDF, so that it will reside within the same single document *file* ?