Hi, I'd be also interested in OCR for linux. OCR is one of the less reasons why I still have to use Windows or the Mac.
Cheers, Schoepp On Mi, Apr 27, 2016 at 07:35:26 -0500, Nick Gawronski wrote: >Hi, Yes I would very much be interested in such an option. Not just for >the GUI but for small systems like the raspberrypi and the camera module >having a program that could snap the image then run the OCR engine then >read and save the text into a text file of course keeping the image. If >tools already exist for the console to do the OCR I would like to know >about them. Nick Gawronski > >On 4/27/2016 1:01 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: >> 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, >> >> >> > -- Christian Schoepplein - <chris (at) schoeppi.net> - http://schoeppi.net
