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,→Using OCR with GRAMPS
:This will ask you of each new letter it recognizes what the value is (a,b,...), and will generate a new index (db.list) + portable-bitmap (pbm) for your letters. Each key entry on db.list is one of the .pbm files and is connected to your custom value (a, b, c ...)
:This is however not very successfull on written text.
* With [http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html Ocrad], you need to use pgm file format.
* People using KDE will probably know [http://kooka.kde.org/ Kooka] the standard KDE scanning tool with builtin OCR (using [http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ GOCR], [http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html Ocrad] which are OSS, or the commercial KADMOS).
* [http://www.geocities.com/claraocr/ claraocr] seems to be able to [http://stderr.org/doc/clara/clara-tut.html#1.3 learn but I do not find any documentation]. It opens natively [http://en.wikipedia. Also, need to use pgm or pbm org/wiki/Portable_pixmap PNM] file formatformats.
*Also, [http://www.corollarium.com/conjecture/index.php Conjecture] is an OCR third party tool who incorporate both open sources programs code bases.
