Re: What about OCR ?

[Marc Santhoff <M Santhoff t-online de>]

Am Sonntag, den 02.10.2005, 19:37 -0600 schrieb Michael Torrie:
> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 09:43 +0200, "Alpe.Nusslé" wrote:
> > I'm french and I cannot undurstand a long text in english, so I try to 
> > send you this request.
> >
> > Can we get an OCR function (reconnaissance de caractères en français) 
> > with GIMP ?
>
> OCR is not at all within the realm of GTK.  You need to look at programs
> specifically designed for this kind of image processing. I would check
> google.com and freshmeat.net for projects that implement this kind of
> thing.  There may even be libraries that you can use from within your
> GTK programs.  I presume you want to write a GTK interface that will
> allow you to perform OCR on documents.

Besides that you may want to look for:

gocr/jocr   http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
ocrad       http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html
claraocr    http://www.claraocr.org/

HTH,
Marc