so i was playing today and I compiled tesseract for n900. i also compiled ImageMagic so i could convert from jpg to tif for tesseract.

providing your picture is black text on white backround it seems to work pretty well.

i'm wondering how hard it would be to write a 'sharing' plugin for the photo manager, which will just call a script to process the image through convert and tesseract and spit out the text.

if i get the time I'll play more. might be cool if someone with a setup for packaging would consider uploading tesseract and magemagic to extras-devel....