Optical character recognition is an uphill battle for open source

Posted by tadelste on Jan 4, 2006 7:32 AM EDT
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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.

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