[Athen] Free and Reliable OCR

[Jon Gunderson]

Google has an open source OCR project.

You need to convert the documents to TIFF files to use the engine I believe.

http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/



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>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:08:48 -0700

>From: "Dave M. Thomas" <Dave.M.Thomas at studentlife.du.edu>  

>Subject: [Athen] Free and Reliable OCR  

>To: "Athen at athenpro.org" <Athen at athenpro.org>

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>   Hi!

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>   Does anyone know of free or low-cost AND reliable OCR software? A professor attended a

>   presentation I did on assistive technology and is interested in running much of her image

>   files through OCR and then listening to them. The presentation was all about Universal

>   Design for Learning.

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>   Thank you!

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>   Dave

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>   Dave Thomas, Assistive Technology Specialist

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>   University of Denver Disability Services Program

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>   2050 E. Evans Ave., Suite #30

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>   Denver, CO 80208

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>   dave.m.thomas at studentlife.du.edu

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