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Originally Posted by pholy
See my comments on the Scanner Recommendation thread. I would not call the Abbyy FineReader software cheesy, even if it doesn't run under Linux 
Sorry, I didn't figure out how to reference the thread by linky... |
yeah well, WinDoze-only-ware is categorised in my personal field notebook as cheesy
just an idiosyncratic bias.
More seriously though... I do wonder why the free software community, which has produced GIMP and other very viable alternatives to ransomware for other applications, has not managed to produce good OCR. That seems worth a bit of research just as an interesting question in its own right.