input needed on Debian

[Leon A. Goldstein]

Gary wrote inter alia:

> > I am also waiting for support for OCR.  I have a Win app called "ABBYY"
> > (made in Russia) that works very well, and outputs to WP format (sine qua
> > non for me).  I have managed to start ABBYY in wine, but it
> > (understandably) does not run the scanner, and its OCR  output from a
> > Linux scan is unusable.
>
>
> thanks for the tip on this.  There are a few linux OCR programs,
> native to linux, but I have never used them. I believe one is on the
> SUSE Pro version.
>
That would be clara and gocr.  Kooka uses gocr, and there is a how-to on
the SxS site for using gocr from the command line.

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Leon A. Goldstein

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