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Old 01-24-2010, 03:09 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by hidari View Post
Recommend Vuecsan:

http://www.hamrick.com/


Works on Linux, Apple, or Windoze. 40USD. I have used it for several years..
Googling around I have discovered that GOCR is still alive, and that Google (the place I would like to have spent my career if I could go back and start over!) is distributing Tesseract. both are cmd-line driven and seem well worth a look and a sniff.

Point well taken about the embedded-machine aspect (using a windoze laptop or palmtop as a controller, like the msdos machines that still run many CNC mills). I just don't have a few hundred bux to throw at the project; hoping to do it on the cheap with what I already have (Leopard, a laptop, a digicam, and coding skills).

thanks for the thread! I hope some more folks will pop up and explain their own personal scanning/ocring setups.
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