Comments on: State of OCR in Gnome http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/ Make scanning as easy as printing for both users and developers Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Étienne Bersac http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Étienne Bersac Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:56:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/#comment-57 Hi Helmut,<br/><br/>Your comment on "what for another engine" is not alone. Article about Gnome Scan on Ars Technica and LinuxFR made similar feedback (but they where more about using tesseract instead of OCRopus - a non sense - or gocr).<br/><br/>Kind regards,<br/>Étienne. Hi Helmut,

Your comment on “what for another engine” is not alone. Article about Gnome Scan on Ars Technica and LinuxFR made similar feedback (but they where more about using tesseract instead of OCRopus – a non sense – or gocr).

Kind regards,
Étienne.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Anonymous Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:20:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/#comment-56 Hi,<br/><br/>great news, thank you!! :)<br/><br/>This takes Gnome another step to the Desktop.<br/>Don't get me wrong: I'm *very* happy with this command line tool provided by OCRshop, but I'm not an usual user.<br/><br/>Have luck, best regards,<br/><br/>Helmut Hi,

great news, thank you!! :)

This takes Gnome another step to the Desktop.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m *very* happy with this command line tool provided by OCRshop, but I’m not an usual user.

Have luck, best regards,

Helmut

]]> By: Étienne Bersac http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Étienne Bersac Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:20:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/#comment-55 Hi,<br/><br/>Writing a wrapper won't help you much since using command line tool is a temporary experimental solution. As i said, i wish a real OCR API.<br/><br/>Regarding your request, i decided that i won't stick Gnome OCR to OCRopus. I should better provide a modular OCR layout for Gnome allowing to choose backend (just like Gnome Scan 0.5 do for scanner access and SANE). However, don't expect me to support each proprietary softwares. See my last post on Choosing an OCR system.<br/><br/>Kind regards,<br/>Étienne. Hi,

Writing a wrapper won’t help you much since using command line tool is a temporary experimental solution. As i said, i wish a real OCR API.

Regarding your request, i decided that i won’t stick Gnome OCR to OCRopus. I should better provide a modular OCR layout for Gnome allowing to choose backend (just like Gnome Scan 0.5 do for scanner access and SANE). However, don’t expect me to support each proprietary softwares. See my last post on Choosing an OCR system.

Kind regards,
Étienne.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Anonymous Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:33:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/#comment-54 Sad, so I must write a wrapper in bash to fake ocr-shop as eg. gocr and search for another GUI tool.<br/>Bash is my only knowledge and I help normal users to use Linux.<br/>But every GPL OCR Software is 'very basic' to recognize text. Try to compare OCR-Shop with Ocropus and you know what I mean. No normal user ("from the other OS") accept this very minimalistic recognize results from a GPL program, if every sold scanner comes with a 100% better OCR software. Sad, so I must write a wrapper in bash to fake ocr-shop as eg. gocr and search for another GUI tool.
Bash is my only knowledge and I help normal users to use Linux.
But every GPL OCR Software is ‘very basic’ to recognize text. Try to compare OCR-Shop with Ocropus and you know what I mean. No normal user (“from the other OS”) accept this very minimalistic recognize results from a GPL program, if every sold scanner comes with a 100% better OCR software.

]]> By: Étienne Bersac http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Étienne Bersac Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:23:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/#comment-53 @anonymous 02:11:<br/><br/>Hi,<br/><br/>I won't write support for such software. They'll have to do it by their own, or one of their users.<br/><br/>Kind regards @anonymous 02:11:

Hi,

I won’t write support for such software. They’ll have to do it by their own, or one of their users.

Kind regards

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Anonymous Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:11:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/gnome-scan/2007/08/07/state-of-ocr-in-gnome/#comment-52 Please include support for OCR-Shop. This isn't GPL but the best OCR engine for Linux. Thanks!<br/><br/>http://www.vividata.com/index.html Please include support for OCR-Shop. This isn’t GPL but the best OCR engine for Linux. Thanks!

http://www.vividata.com/index.html

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