I have never needed to do Optical Character Recognition (turning scanned documents back into text form), but it appears i may soon need to (in english, FWIW).
Does anyone have a preferred tool/suite that is packaged for debian?
A scan of the archive turns up
gocr
ocrad
unpaper
clara
none of which i've ever used, and some of which seem stale (clara
's
version number is 20031214-2
. Suggestions? Things to avoid? Have i
missed something important?