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

[Pedro Rocadas <procadas@yahoo.com>]

One of the best that I know is Clara ocr. But the big
problem of extracting text from a image is that during
a fax transmission "noise" could happen and that cause
dark areas, lines unreadable,etc,etc. The best way of
course is using an isdn modem ;-).

--- Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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