On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, ALT SHN <i(dot)geografica(at)alt-shn(dot)org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This might seem a Little off topic, but maybe someone here can help me.
>
> I need to extract toponomical data from old digitized paper maps. I wish to
> explore Optical character recognition (OCR).
>
> Does anyone has a suggestion/experience with this kind of challenge?
You could try with this software:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html
Markus