OCR...
Andrew Gould
andrewlylegould at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 17:33:43 PST 2009
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:32:57PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:08:55PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote:
> > > > >so what is the best commercial/shareware that can read a 10pt-font
> > > > >file? (( also, when i have time to get back into actually hacking,
> > > > >this [[turning imaged pdf into OCR'able ascii or 8859-1]] is giong
> > > > >to
> > > > >be a first target. any idea which team i should go with. gOCR
> > > > >looks
> > > > >best so far to me.
> > > >
> > > > AABBYY Finereader - Omnipage haven't been able to catch it in several
> > > > years either feature or qualitywise. No idea if Finereader runs under
> > > > emulator though. If the file is already a PDF and 72 DPI with text
> as
> > > > graphics most of the damage has already been done, and it will be
> > > > extremely hard to OCR.
> > > >
> > >
> > > well, damage is probably done. how can i check the resolution?
> > > i tried to increase it by creating huge ppm and tif files, but
> > > then that's really absurd since there can only be just so much
> > > data per image. i _could_ try xv and jpeg and smoothing image
> to
> > > refine, but too much hassle.
> > >
> > > (i used gocr -m 130 and "saw" the glyphs it (presumably) saw.
> > > seemed pretty much okay to my eyes. but then i'm not a computer
> > > program. [MAYBE :)]
> > >
> > > gary
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -Reko
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gary Kline kline at thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service
> > > Unix
> > > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
> > > The 2.23a release of Jottings:
> http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
> > >
> >
> > At one point in time, the Abby folks were offering a back-end that ran on
> > FreeBSD. I tried to get the free download; but it never happened. (They
> > misplaced my signed, faxed license agreement and I finally got tired of
> the
> > back-and-forth prerequisite communication.)
> >
> > Abby also no longer supports Mac OS X. I use an old version and like it
> a
> > lot.
> >
>
>
> OK, now i know what to expect. I found theit site and signed up
> to get the linux version; trial. not likrly to go any
> further....
>
> gary
>
>
> > Andrew
>
> --
> Gary Kline kline at thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service
> Unix
> http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
> The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
>
>
I'm rooting for you! :-)
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