I have a book that I wrote 9 yrs ago and the original copy has been lost
in numerous hard drives over the years. I have a hard copy left and
don't really feel like retyping all 100 pages. What is the best
software to use for OCR to get it into Libre/Open Office?


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On Saturday, February 04, 2012 09:26:46 PM John Batt wrote:
> I have a book that I wrote 9 yrs ago and the original copy has been lost
> in numerous hard drives over the years. I have a hard copy left and
> don't really feel like retyping all 100 pages. What is the best
> software to use for OCR to get it into Libre/Open Office?

I have heard good things for tesseract-ocr, but gocr is also good.

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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:37 PM, <theuteck@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday, February 04, 2012 09:26:46 PM John Batt wrote:

> I have a book that I wrote 9 yrs ago and the original copy has been lost

> in numerous hard drives over the years. *I have a hard copy left and

> don't really feel like retyping all 100 pages. *What is the best

> software to use for OCR to get it into Libre/Open Office?



I have heard good things for tesseract-ocr, but gocr is also good.



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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OCR

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On 02/04/2012 11:26 PM, John Batt wrote:
I have a book that I wrote 9 yrs ago and the original copy has been
lost in numerous hard drives over the years. I have a hard copy left
and don't really feel like retyping all 100 pages. What is the best
software to use for OCR to get it into Libre/Open Office?



There are several different OCR programs that are available.but there
are also OCR services online, some are free and others charge a fee. I
have found them to work better than the software that I have installed
in Kubuntu.


http://www.onlineocr.net/
http://www.newocr.com/
http://www.free-online-ocr.com/

I have tried these but you can find more using Google.

Eric jackson


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