Re: [ILUG-BOM] Scan to OCR

IPS Khurana wrote:

hi i am using Ubuntu 8.04, i want to scan documents to OCR to Office documents, so that i dont have to type all the matter (text), but it xsane and kooka converts in .txt files with junk characters, many times blank file .txt how can i convert directly into Office Doc files,

I am not sure if there is an open source OCR engine that will retain the formatting and table structures, gocr is a good tool and I believe it is in use in the software you mentioned

it used to convent in WinXP, directly into MS Doc without or very less junk characters retaining the same format.

if you already have a good OCR why not use the software you already have with wine

can u suggest any good software for this on Ubuntu