[X4U] Mac OCR

Randy B. Singer randy at macattorney.com
Mon Jul 26 22:57:43 PDT 2004


Stroller said:

>I think I shall use some of my Copious Free Time to knock up a sweet 
>Cocoa front-end to gocr & package it as an.app.


I'd love to see that!

http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/gocr

http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

I wonder why Apple didn't think to include OCR in OS X?  I suspect that 
it would be a really neat selling feature.  Apple could even re-brand 
someone's scanner and sell it as an Apple scanner to take advantage of 
(read: make more money from) this capability.



Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting
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