Re: [hylafax-users] Extract text strings from fax

[Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net>]

On Wed, 21 May 2003 17:52:13 +0800
Wei Ming Long <WEI_Ming_Long@dsi.a-star.edu.sg> wrote:

> Do you know if gocr can extract hand-written text?
> 

Your idea of extracting text information for routing purposes
from a received fax is certainly an ambitious one.  Fax 
transmission is just not designed to be used in that way.

But the beauty of Open Source is that the user can modify
the source code as he pleases.  Experimentation is always
encouraged.

To answer your question, gocr cannot extract hand-written text,
but there are other Open Source OCR packages that you might
want to examine.  Just go to Freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net)
and enter "ocr" in the search field.  This will give you a
list of available packages.  Some may be able to handle
hand-written text.  Others may be trainable.

Frank Peters

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