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Re: [SLUG] OCR


Michael Lake wrote:
Alan L Tyree wrote:

Has anyone had any (successful) experience with optical character
recognition software? I just tried gocr (whatever version is with Woody)
without a great deal of success, but I was working with a very poor
photocopy.

I haven't tried this, just a suggestion, but perhaps you could pass the scanned file through autotrace first (http://autotrace.sf.net) to clean up the image, then let gocr have another crack at it? Could be worth a shot.