Need advice: Ubuntu OCR techniques

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Icarus Alive <icarus.alive at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> Icarus (may your wings stay on),
>
> Great idea.  I'll check it out.
>
> I was unable to make it work.  I scanned one of the files as a 3-page TIFF
file with Irfanview, and uploaded it to Google Docs.  I marked all the
checkboxes for conversion, but did not get a text document.  I've marked it
shared to all, and the link (for me) is
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6pbHEZND52eZWNlZGQ4MmUtMTgwZi00MTQ3LWJkMTUtNzIzOTIwMWRlOWJk&hl=en_US
(modulo any folding)

Help?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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