Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:32:57 -0600 From: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Reko Turja <reko.turja@liukuma.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OCR... Message-ID: <d356c5630901281132g232f9b60y70c7ed4f750e4428@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090128192211.GB22208@thought.org> References: <20090128040802.GA94236@thought.org> <319D789FD18042DBB7A19571DA26E5AE@rivendell> <20090128192211.GB22208@thought.org>
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gary Kline <kline@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@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. Andrew
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