Chinese optical character recognition

Fabian Cenedese Cenedese at indel.ch
Mon Sep 15 02:34:24 CDT 2003


>I'm interested in getting a Chinese optical character recognition
>program to run under wine.  
>
>http://www.twinbridge.com/Products/SharpEye/ocr.html
>
>According to the web site, it may run on Windows 95 as well as the old
>Windows 3.  Is it therefore safe to assume that it will run under wine?
>Surely it should be able to handle anything that can run on Windows 3
>right? 

Actually no. The problem is the scanner. Under Win3/9x you can access
any hardware directly which is forbidden in NT+ (and Linux as well). If the
program also runs on NT your chances are bigger. Additionally you need
a native Linux driver for your scanner which will be used by wine.

bye  Fabi





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