Maybe we'll see a good free software OCR solution yet ..
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Those of us interested in OCR will want to keep an eye on http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/.
From that Web page: ``We are planning on an alpha-release of the
system in Q1. It's a technology preview that shows the architecture and is already quite useful...''
This is the follow-on to the Tesseract work that came out last year.
Bill
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Tesseract is very good btw.
Its basic performance is generally competitive with top of the line commercial OCR system. Where it is lacking is in the automatic handling of formatted documents (for example, it scrambles multi-column text unless you manually break the columns), and facilities for training and manually assisted correction.
On 3/12/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Maybe we'll see a good free software OCR solution yet ..
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Janssen bill@janssen.org Date: Mar 10, 2007 10:51 AM Subject: [BP] OCRopus OCR shows up on Google Code... To: Book People Mailing List bookpeople@pobox.upenn.edu
Those of us interested in OCR will want to keep an eye on http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/.
From that Web page: ``We are planning on an alpha-release of the system in Q1. It's a technology preview that shows the architecture and is already quite useful...''
This is the follow-on to the Tesseract work that came out last year.
Bill
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