1 Clara OCR is a free (GPL) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program
2 for systems that support the C library and the X windows system (e.g.
3 most flavours of Unix). The development platform of Clara OCR is
4 32-bit Intel running GNU/Linux.
6 Clara OCR is intended for large scale digitalization projects. It
7 features a powerful GUI and a web interface for cooperative
8 digitalization of books. Clara OCR development started in 1999 and
9 is approaching production quality.
13 Converts pbm/pgm image files to text (ISO-8859)
14 Can process scans in batch for large documents
15 Can run from the command-line
16 Is relatively easy to train
20 Is not "omnifont"; you must train it for each document
21 Does not scan the images
22 Does not support unicode
23 Cannot read handwriting