On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, fredex wrote: > Has anyone here tried the new Tesseract OCR engine that google has recently > released? > > I gave it a whirl last night. IT compiles more or less fine on Centos 4.4 > if you don't mind lots of warnings. > > Took a scanned image I already had that contained a column of newspaper > text, GIMP'ed it to cut everything but the text, increased contrast to > get rid of grayish background, saved as uncompressed tiff. > > Fired up tesseract and it is STILL running, around ten hours later, > consuming 90% of the CPU. This doesn't seem right... > > Clues? Wrong community. Don't know what the value for this post is, chances are this is not related to CentOS 4.4 and you have better response on a Tesseract or OCR related forum. Thanks for playing, better luck next time :) -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]