SimpleOCR Forum

I tried SimpleOCR with Crossover Mac Public Beta and it works fine so far.

I treated it as an unsupported program and told Crossover Mac to make the bottle for the SimpleOCR installer.

It worked well although Crossover didn't know when the installer was finished. I had to tell it to finish the installation and Crossover went ahead and made a Windows "reboot" although the SimpleOCR program had already started and was running just fine without the "reboot".

As far as SimpleOCR goes, there are improvements that could be made (like better rotation support and such) but that's that software maker's issue not Crossover's

The only real problem I encountered was the SimpleORC Help program appeared to be functional but only able to show one help page about a subject I wasn't interested in.

I don't know if this is a SOCR problem or a Crossover problem but I don't have a Windows machine to make the comparison.

Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, both programs work. The OCR program reads image files and turns them into text as best it can. Crossover makes it possible on a Mac.

Tried SOCR with Linux using CrossOver 5.0.3.

Installation went fine for both bottles windows 98 and 2000. CrossOver detected installation finished and rebooted.

Launching the program done without any problems. Using scanner Mustek which works fine with Linux. After configuring the scanner options in SOCR, it found my scanner and tried to scan. However, it mentions the driver is not properly configured and cancels the operation. Other scanner settings does not work.

Opening image files and scanning for text also works.

I have problems with not having the SORC program in the windows bar. I have to alt+tab to switch windows. Help options do not work either, could not open it.

Other than that, the program installs and runs without any errors. Only a few minor problems with some certain functions.

Great! Thanks for trying it out on Linux. I'm glad it works rather well for both platforms.