Re: OCR

2018-08-24 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Anybody doing ocr _now_? On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:54 AM Roger Eller wrote: > Speaking of using the camera for OCR, the Google Translate app is pretty > amazing at real-time OCR+translation. > > > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en > > ~Roger > >

Re: OCR

2016-10-03 Thread Roger Eller
Speaking of using the camera for OCR, the Google Translate app is pretty amazing at real-time OCR+translation. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en ~Roger On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > After you sent it, I uploaded a samp

Re: OCR

2016-10-03 Thread Mike Kerner
After you sent it, I uploaded a sample of what the camera would see. I was disappointed in the results, so I'm worried that that solution is going to be a problem. We would have to grab the image, upload it, see if the OCR passes a sanity test, and if it doesn't, take and upload another image, et

Re: OCR

2016-10-03 Thread Mike Bonner
I haven't. I've used an extension in the past that I believe was driven by google ocr (in chrome) and it worked well. The nice thing is the google platform is a rest api, with google computing power behind it. Not sure how easy it would be to integrate into livecode but hey.. Its rest. The bigge

Re: OCR

2016-10-03 Thread Mike Kerner
Have either of you tried these, and if so, have you tested response time? On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Might look here too: https://cloud.google.com/vision/ and here > https://developers.google.com/vision/text-overview > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Roger Eller > wr

Re: OCR

2016-10-03 Thread Mike Bonner
Might look here too: https://cloud.google.com/vision/ and here https://developers.google.com/vision/text-overview On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > I have needed it for an android app before. I looked into shelling a > tesserract command. That could be a nice widget since it

Re: OCR

2016-10-03 Thread Roger Eller
I have needed it for an android app before. I looked into shelling a tesserract command. That could be a nice widget since it is OS. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract ~Roger On Oct 3, 2016 8:34 AM, "Mike Kerner" wrote: > Anyone thinki