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How to scan and OCR like a pro with open source tools

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT
With optical character recognition (OCR), you can scan the contents of a document into a single file of editable text. This article, which focuses on scanning books, describes the steps you need to take to prepare pages for optimal OCR results, and compares various free OCR tools to determine which is the best at extracting the text.

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SCAN-VIEW(1)															      SCAN-VIEW(1)

NAME

       scan-view

       scan-view(1) -- The clang(1) static analyzer results viewer.

SYNOPSIS

       scan-view options results directory

DESCRIPTION

       scan-view  a  companion comannd line utility to scan-build(1), scan-view is used to view analysis results generated by scan-build(1). There
       is an option that one can pass to scan-build to cause scan-view to run as soon as it the analysis of a build completes

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      show the help message and exit.

       --host=HOST
	      Host interface to listen on. (default=127.0.0.1)

       --port=PORT
	      Port to listen on. (default=8181)

       --debug
	      Print additional debugging information.

       --auto-reload
	      Automatically update module for each request.

       --no-browser
	      Don't open a webbrowser on startup.

       --allow-all-hosts
	      Allow connections from any host (access restricted to "127.0.0.1" by default)

AUTHORS

       Maintained by the Clang / LLVM Team http://clang.llvm.org.

       This manual page was written by Ermenegildo Fiorito fiorito.g@gmail.com for the Debian Project.

SEE ALSO

       clang(1) scan-build(1) http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org

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