[MLUG] Linux OCR ?

[Fabian Rodriguez]

Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Has anyone used OCR succesfully in Linux ? I want to convert some tiff 
> scans in french and spanish and not sure where to begin. If there's an 
> obvious "works well, has a good community, is maintained" choice, I'd 
> love to know before trying / researching all that came up with a simple 
> search of my repositories (using Ubuntu).

So far tesseract which I tested first seems to do an excellent job for 
spanish docs (including accents etc.).

F.