The GOCR contains a small OCR (Object Character Recognition) program. It is useful for reading text from a graphical input file. It works without training, but you'll need a high quality scan to get a good results.
GOCR can used as a console utility, but there is an GTK front end in the source package, also.
Download (HTTP): http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jocr/gocr-0.37.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/jocr/gocr-0.37.tar.gz
Download size: 657 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 5.9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.20 SBU
TeX-2.0.2 or fig2dev (for examples), XFree86-4.3.0.1 and GTK+-1.2.10 (for front end only)
Install GOCR by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install |
To install the GTK front end, use the following commands:
cd frontend/gnome && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install |
To install the help:
make help |
To install the documentation:
make doc |
To run tests on GOCR:
make examples |
The GOCR package contains gocr and gtk-ocr.
gocr is a program that prints all text it can read from any graphical input file to stdout.
gtk-ocr is the GTK front end for gocr.