Re: life without libungif

Brian Burton (Fri 02/24/06 11:10):
> David A. Lee wrote:
> >While your at it, how about OCR on the images to detect those GIF's that 
> >are really just straight text ...
> >< yea ya I know ... >
> 
> :-)
> 
> Seriously though, does anyone know if there are any open source OCR 
> libraries?  It might be worth a shot if one is available and works 
> reasonably well.
> 
> ++Brian
A quick search in FreeBSD ports:     
 
   gocr http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
   ocrad http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html
 
A recent article on the capabilities, or lack thereof, of these two:
 
   http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/15/1848236&from=rss
 
Zach


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