What do you use for OCR?
What do you use for OCR? I have tried various OSS OCR routines and none of them do that good a job on articles from the newspapers and magazines. The only thing that comes out decent is a crisp, double-spaced font with sufficient spacing between letters. For example, the word "after" would come out garbage because of the "ft" running together. I have tried every OCR, both free and trial versions of the "pay products". While some do a better job than others, they all fail when I need to retype over 50% and continuously retrain them.
As for the 10;04/10.10 versions of Ubuntu, I was sticking with them until I found out about Zorin_OS 5.2 Core. It use Lubuntu 11.04 as a base, but the Desktop,including panels (top and bottom) work like Ubuntu 10.04/10, Gnome 2.
It does take a while to download (1.1GB) because of the servers - I typically download around 10Mbps + on my broadband connection. One of its neat features is to choose a Win. 7, Win. XP or Linux Gnome 2 style Desktop (still using Linux apps). One thing it just installs Google Chrome instead of Firefox - however, in the Menu list under System Tools, you can select "Zorin Browser Manager" and install Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and/or Midori - Same place to chose the "Zorin Look Changer".
