Sekhar, There are a few open Jira's: I think it would be a great contribution if you get this to work:
- CTAKES-189 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-189> GSoC: Implement OCR/Tika to standardize text input for cTAKES - - CTAKES-105 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-105> Add Apache Tika integration On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Hari, Sekhar <sekhar.h...@cgi.com> wrote: > Thanks. Let me try this, and will let you know for any help if required. > > Cheers, > Sekhar H. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mattmann, Chris A (3980) [mailto:chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov] > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:44 AM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org; u...@ctakes.apache.org > Subject: Re: Image to text conversion > > What about using Apache Tika within cTAKES for this? Tika supports OCR > through Tesseract: > > http://wiki.apache.org/tika/TikaOCR > > Cheers, > Chris > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Chief Architect > Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet > Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 > Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of > Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: <Hari>, Sekhar <sekhar.h...@cgi.com> > Reply-To: "dev@ctakes.apache.org" <dev@ctakes.apache.org> > Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 10:11 PM > To: "dev@ctakes.apache.org" <dev@ctakes.apache.org>, " > u...@ctakes.apache.org" <u...@ctakes.apache.org> > Subject: Image to text conversion > > >Hello All - > > > >I am looking for an OCR ability in cTAKES. The requirement is to > >convert scanned image documents (ex: scanned hand written > >prescriptions) into a text format. Then apply the usual NLP pipeline to > >convert the unstructured text to a structured data. > > > >Can cTAKES convert scanned image documents into a text? If so, please > >help me to understand this by sharing any documents or video. > > > >Many thanks, > >Sekhar H. > > > >
