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		naner on May 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Going Paper-Free for $220 Plenty of scanners work fine with SANE but you're not going to get OCR.

steve___ on May 27, 2011 [–]

tesseract is a cli OCR program. In the Archlinux community repo there is also, ocrad, cuneiform and gocr. I have not used these.

naner on May 27, 2011 | [–]

Open source OCR programs have not yet reached the level of what is commercially available and none of this stuff is packaged together in an easy to use manner for OCRing scanned documents.

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