Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:23:50 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> Cc: Reko Turja <reko.turja@liukuma.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OCR... Message-ID: <20090129022349.GB34877@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <d356c5630901281733o52f2c2d4u84f4435ba8a2fcbb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090128040802.GA94236@thought.org> <319D789FD18042DBB7A19571DA26E5AE@rivendell> <20090128192211.GB22208@thought.org> <d356c5630901281132g232f9b60y70c7ed4f750e4428@mail.gmail.com> <20090128230916.GA29328@thought.org> <d356c5630901281733o52f2c2d4u84f4435ba8a2fcbb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:33:41PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary Kline <kline@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@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. > > > > > > > > > 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@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! :-) well, i just got an email from a david hazard who said to look on their website; i replied that i had and couldn't find their test suite.... if/when this guy replies, i'll share. gary -- 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
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