Re: How good is Linux OCR?

Stefan Claas <stefan@mailchuck.com> wrote:

Rich wrote:

Stefan Claas <stefan@mailchuck.com> wrote:

Rich wrote:
 

Note that Tesseract will (I think) compile for windows too, so if you
wanted to know "how well tesseract worked" you could just install the
windows version and see for yourself.

 
I tried tesseract under Linux. It is horrible, because of to many errors.

 
Fair enough.  The windows version will do the same.
 
Two other options I'm aware of for Linux:
 
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/office/gocr/
 
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/libraries/cuneiform/
 
I have never used either, so I can't comment on how well the work.
 
Your original image, however, is one that will be hard to OCR, so it is
quite amazing that whatever OCR engine MS supplies is actually able to
convert it with some accuracy.

 
With 100 % accuracy. :-)

That is quite amazing in that case.  Is this a built in windows OCR
feature, or a MS add on OCR for windows?