Hi, After test of various OCR, I feel that Tesseract, the most advanced OCR engine on Linux, hasn't noawadays all ways to be as performant as commercial utilities. Even if it's wrapped in some tools like Lios or gimagereader, the performance is still difficult to use for "basic" users (I mean, the Windows users who don't have any technical knowledge or who use computer just for needs).
That's why I had a look at what provide proprietary world, waiting for having money enough to create a full OCR suite, free and based on Tesseract. Create or improve, as Lios and gimagereader are excellent points of beginning, but some things are hard to understand for our users in GUI (after tests). And we needed a quick solution, so that the GNU/Linux OS could be usable by everyone now, including OCR matter, so that they buy service and finance our devs projects for free software. But I wonder now if some usual GNU/Linux users here could be interested by such a product. What we reach now is a suite for 200E, including: - Abbyy FindReader 11, unlimited in number of pages thanks to an agreement between Abbyy and Hypra based on the fact we do a free program and designed for blind people with specifific needs in OCR, - A package to run it on MATE. 2 ways: * from an image file, right-click, choose the proper option * from a scanner: we give a command to create a binding (as ours in linked against Compiz). I precise that the utility could also use Tesseract if FindReader is missing, but in such case, it will be free. Would some users interested by such solution? I "like" it as it introduces OCR on GNU/Linux and enable some unusual users to come. Waiting for a full "libre" solution, accessible for such people. Regards, -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL Coordinateur francophone du projet Linux From Scratch Animateur suppléant du groupe de travail Accessibilité de l'April Administrateur d'accelibreinfo Administrateur de Liberté 0 -- Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: cont...@hypra.fr Site Web: http://hypra.fr
