Hi. It appears that ocropus and tesseract look pretty promising. I am wondering, does anyone know of an active project to develop a typical free software book scanning frontend application like OpenBook or similar products from the commercial world? I know that Emacspeak has some code to interface ocropus, but that is a little bit too much tied into Emacspeak for my current tastes.
Any hints? If no, we should probably develop such a thing, do you have wishes for a feature list? To me, a frontend needs to: * Keep track of page numbers, allowing me to delete pages and renumber them. * Provide speech output and scanning in background. I.e., while speech is reading the text, scanning new pages should not interrupt speech. This is very comfortable when reading a book, you can turn pages during listening to the text with a minimum of interaction, i.e., just a single key press per page. * Allow to edit the text so that scanning errors can be corrected. Ideally, with a feedback mechanism that populates a dictionary for the OCR engine. * A pronouncation dictionary, ideally with a submission system so that we can collect good improvements from users and eventually incorporate them into the engines we were using (like espeak). Since I am not a US citizen, I am not terrible interested in Bookshare integration, but I guess that such features would be desireable as well. Any thoughts? -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
