[vox-tech] OCR on the fly

[Henry House]

På tisdag, 22 februari 2005, skrev Dave Margolis:
> Does anyone know of a program that I could run a few thousand GIF images 
> through, perform an OCR-like operation on each, and get some kind of 
> text back for putting into a database for searching purposes.
> 
> I'm looking into making my collection of daily comics searchable.  I 
> know the fonts in most comics don't lend themselves to very good OCR, 
> but I'm thinking a certain margin of error would be acceptable.

I've used GOCR with some sucess. It will not have very good quality with
low-resolution files, however.

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