[Pythonmac-SIG] Python OCR on the Mac?

[Paul Berkowitz]

On 10/24/05 4:38 PM, "Bill Janssen" <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

> I've heard from OCR experts that most (all?) open-source OCR is of
> very poor quality, so I was hoping that some other commercial product
> had an embedded OCR in it that would be available through Python.
> 
> The Gamera project is interesting, being both Python-based and
> Mac-friendly, but they tend towards research topics like recognizing
> musical notes on a 200-year-old printed score, rather than
> bread-and-butter textual OCR.

OmniPage, the premier (and expensive) OCR app on the Mac, is
AppleScriptable, and therefore accessible also via appscript in Python. I've
got OmniPage SE (a Lite version that cam bundled with my scanner) and even
it is scriptable to an extent.

-- 
Paul Berkowitz