tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37423427.post4353223250554293934..comments2014-12-10T17:02:53.179-08:00iheartubuntu[email protected]Blogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37423427.post-44373287917533138392010-05-26T11:14:23.648-07:002010-05-26T11:14:23.648-07:00Hi Nina and thanks for the reply! I dont see an article link though.<br /><br />In any event there is lots of stuff on the net about OCR in linux, but not a lot of good info.<br /><br />XPDF has a command line utility for exporting PDF to text, but it doesnt work well at all.<br /><br />KOOKA scanning utility for KDE supports GOCR, but you need a scanner hooked up to even open KOOKA.<br /><br />Abbyy Finereader in Windows is AWESOME (costs money) and they have a trial version available for linux...<br />http://www.abbyy.com/ocr_sdk_linux/key_features/<br /><br />I&#39;ll try it out, but I really dont want to pay for anything :)<br /><br />Again, the best Ive found for Ubuntu users is gscan2pdf and using the OCR feature within.i [heart] ubuntuhttp://iheartubuntu.com[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37423427.post-85044259160686985712010-05-26T07:35:47.287-07:002010-05-26T07:35:47.287-07:00Here is a good article which compares the various OCR software:Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07995477213676710373[email protected]