>From: R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.com>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: Slug List <slug@nks.net>
>Subject: [SLUG] Re: slug] OCR program recommendation Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005
>13:49:18 -0500 (EST)
>
>Some years ago I followed the development of a FOSS project called
>'clara-ocr' which was progressing well and read fairly accurately --
>designed to read old, hard to read texts.
>
>The last upstream release I saw was back in 2002, and the claraocr.org has
>been taken by a domain squatter. Mandrake carried it back then
>
>... fortunately, I packaged it back almost exactly 4 years ago, and an
>older copy exists in my archive at:
> ftp://ftp.owriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/clara/
>in SRPM form -- it builds fine on CentOS-4 and cAos-[12] with a minor tweak
>to the .spec file, to reflect changes in build and packaging practices over
>the last few years. A new version (0.9.8-2orc) will appear there tomorrow
>after it gets through my release process.
>
>Description:
>
>Clara OCR is a free (GPL) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program for
>systems that support the C library and the X windows system (e.g. most
>flavours of Unix). The development platform of Clara OCR is 32-bit Intel
>running GNU/Linux.
>
>Clara OCR is intended for large scale digitalization projects. It features
>a powerful GUI and a web interface for cooperative digitalization of books.
>Clara OCR development started in 1999 and is approaching production
>quality.
>
>---------------------
>
>A recent post on the topic of an Open Source OCR shootout is at:
>
>http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2005-October/000799.html
>and makes a good read
>
>-- Russ Herrold
It looks like Clara OCR is still being developed:
http://www.geocities.com/claraocr/
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