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From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Socrates-and-An Easier OCR?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:07:06 +0200 (SAST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1109161002290.24949@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.1109151506590.69089@server1.shellworld.net>

Hi Hart,
The kies package I have released has a set of scripts like you describe.
It is called kies_p2t for kies_paper to text.
It supports multiple OCR engines.
Tesseract is good and cuneiform IMHO is the best, also allowing for 
decolumnization.
For 140 euro, one can buy abbyyfinereader, a good commercial engine.
You can get kies from:
ftp://ftp.csir.co.za/MI/National_Accessibility_Portal/wvdwalt/kies-latest.tar.bz2
HTH, Willem


On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Hart Larry wrote:

> Well, I would have asked this on Blinux list, but since Kirk ha developed an 
> OCR engine, I am asking here.  I am on the verge of having my scanner 
> working, finally.  I really don't know which of the scanning engines, gocr, 
> tesarac, or any others, have the best results?  But as important for me, 
> which one, including any helpful scripts will make the process simpler?  When 
> I was in windows using OpenBook, it was as simple as hitting a space bar to 
> scan.
> When I looked in google, I noticed some1 who was updating cunaform, also a 
> script called zenity, also, speedy_ocr.  Maybe these are not exact spellings 
> or punctuation, but I suppose some of you know what I am looking for?
> As far as Socrates, I can still find commands which maybe did grab it in the 
> past, but where if anywhere is their a straight download, which would work in 
> Debian 2.632?
> Also, if there are repos I should include, please inform--and-thanks so much 
> in advance
> Hart
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Hart Larry
 ` Kirk Reiser
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   ` Steve Holmes
     ` Willem van der Walt
       ` Steve Holmes
       ` Steve Holmes
         ` Willem van der Walt

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