Demosthenes wrote:
> I'm getting a HP C7280 printer / scanner that comes with OCR software for
> Winblows - will I need to run this with WINE or does Linux have some good
> OCR software?

GOCR might be a good place to start. (don't forget the GTK frontend).
It can interface with xsane.

Demosthenes wrote:
> I'm getting a HP C7280 printer / scanner that comes with OCR software for
> Winblows - will I need to run this with WINE or does Linux have some good
> OCR software?

Ow.. and I heard tesseract should be quite accurate. But don't really
know too much about it. It's supposedly based on code from HP.

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:22:12 +0100, Jurgen Haan wrote:

> Ow.. and I heard tesseract should be quite accurate. But don't really
> know too much about it. It's supposedly based on code from HP.

Ow?

Will GOCR is sounding good if it interfaces with XSane! But Tesseract
may be more accurate?

Demosthenes wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:22:12 +0100, Jurgen Haan wrote:
>
>> Ow.. and I heard tesseract should be quite accurate. But don't really
>> know too much about it. It's supposedly based on code from HP.
>
> Ow?
>
> Will GOCR is sounding good if it interfaces with XSane! But Tesseract
> may be more accurate?

Tesseract *is* more accurate. You just have to be sure the image format
is correct. (single bit pallette saved b&w tiff images it can handle
like a breeze, but 16 bit colour images are a crime).

In all honesty... To answer your initial question;

No, there's no good OCR software for linux. At least not the free
opensource kind that integrates seamlessly into your UI. Compared to
some windows apps, it's not really that good. Both GOCR and Tesseract
are best operated from commandline on B&W saved TIFF's or PGM's.