Need advice: Ubuntu OCR techniques

[Icarus Alive]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to OCR (optical character reading), have never done it before.
> Suddenly I have a need.
>
> I've been diving through old papers and have found hard-copy (appears to be
> real Courier font, laser printed on white background) of a program I wrote
> decades ago on a Macintosh 512K in Lightspeed C.  I thought I had lost it
> completely.  I would like to recover it from the hard-copy without typing
> ~100 pages of code.  I have a scanner, and full Acrobat CS5 on a Windows
> machine, plus all the FOSS of Ubuntu (tesseract, gocr, plus anything useful
> in multiverse).  Does anybody know the fastest way to usable code from this
> situation?

Use the power-of-the-cloud... Google docs can do OCR. For english
language printed text, scanned well, it works pretty well.
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=176692


HTH,
Icarus