[Malvern] FW: Open Source OCR

[Ian Pascoe]

Guys

For info - by the way if anyone is looking to do a bit of development work
on the side Ubuntu are re-jigging their internal structure and have put out
feelers for new developers.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces at gnome.org
[mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-bounces at gnome.org]On Behalf Of Bill
Haneman
Sent: 16 October 2006 18:21
To: Steve Lee
Cc: gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org
Subject: Re: Open Source OCR


Hi Folks:

I just downloaded, built, and tested this OCR engine.

It is really pretty good, and it was very easy to build.  At the moment
it is a bit limited (requires TIFF format, 8 bit depth, and doesn't
understand columns etc.) but the limitations don't seem to be in the
engine, only in the bells and whistles.

I think it could prove to be very useful for certain accessibility
applications.  Of course in a more perfect world we would not need to do
OCR at all...

best regards,

Bill

Steve Lee wrote:
> It was noted at the Accessibility Summit, http://tinyurl.com/uqen3,
> that a high quality FOSS OCR is needed and I remember reading earlier
> that Google have OSed Tesseract.
>
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/191251
>
> It's on a Apache 2.0 License.
>
> -- Steve Lee
> www.oatsoft.org
> www.fullmeasure.co.uk
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