Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> Hi Ronan
>
> There is a fine OCR program in RH 7.3 which I am sure will reduce the size
> considerable.
> In fact there is a fine OCR program in the Windows box into which I scanned
> then as I have not got the scanner to work in the Linux box. Seems I have a
> slight interrupt problem there which I am working on.
>
> But no I haven't OCR them.
>
> All I have done so far is to burn them to a disk.
>
> Why laze I guess or maybe it is that I recall my last venture in mass OCRing
> and the enormous amount of time it consumed. That was a bit much though. Two
> directories that were equivalent to 2 volumes of a New York City telephone
> directory.
>
> Frank
>
gocr is a non-gui program. You launch it from the command-line with
some options. This way, you can easily kick-off a mass OCR of the
entire directory(ies) and go to bed.
--ronan
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