After you download the evaluation kit and run it, if you hit this exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
asprise-eval/libAspriseOCR.so: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It means that you do not have libstdc++.so.5 installed, which is required by Asprise OCR for Linux. Installing libstdc++.so.5 will not downgrade your system in any way, and it is easy.

You can use either of the methods:

• #yum install libstdc++.so.5
  If you do not have yum installed or yum encounters problems, you use:
• RPM Install:
  1. $ wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm
     // Note the above URL is for Fedora 4 x86 32bit only, for other Linux system, visit this page to find the correct URL.
  2. $ ls
     compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm
  3. $ su
     Password:
  4. # rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm
     // Replace the rpm file name with the one you downloaded
     Usually, libstdc++.so.5 is under /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib directory.
  5. Append the directory containing libstdc++.so.5 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH