RE: e-clerk OCR software

["Jonathan Wolfe" <jwolfe@MIT.EDU>]

The OCR Shop one-runnable-instance license is $1795.. sorry, I should
have included that.

-Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Teller [mailto:seth@graphics.lcs.mit.edu] 
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 1:36 PM
To: Jonathan Wolfe
Subject: Re: e-clerk OCR software


what is "quite pricey" ?

Jonathan Wolfe wrote:
> While looking for other OCR options for Linux other than CLARA and
GOCR,
> I stumbled upon Vividata's OCR Shop
> (http://www.vividata.com/ocrshop.html).  It appears to be one of the
> only commercial OCR apps for Linux, and it's quite pricey.  I e-mailed
> them about the educational discounts they claim to offer.
> 
> I also found an article comparing GOCR and OCR Shop
> (http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0303.barr.html) which determined that
> although GOCR is open-source and free, OCR Shop was clearly superior
in
> speed and accuracy.
> 
> If it's not completely unreasonable and they have a good command-line
> interface for their software (they *claim* to), OCR Shop might be a
good
> option for the e-clerk.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> 
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