Comments on: SimpleOCR – Freeware Optical Character Recognition Software

By: Johnny Karp

Johnny Karp — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:05:49 +0000

Thanks for recommending it Alan. You’re right, being open source is a big plus.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:50:35 +0000

Try the open source app “gOCR”.

Pros:
Open source. (you know you like this)
Command line app. (you can do a batch convert)

Cons:

Limited input image format. (You will need GIMP to convert your scanned text to the image format it supports and it can only output text)

Input image needs to be scanned at 300DPI. This, and the fact that it uses a strange image format makes for huge input files (iirc 100MB+ per A4 page)

Slow.

By: NetReview

NetReview — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:51:09 +0000

Thank you. I’ve been looking a long time for a free ORC program. I will check it now.