Re: [orca-list] OCR on Linux

[Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 09:49 +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> My update on kies:
> Daniel said:
> Also think Willem is changing the front end to use another ocr engine.
> I am trying to change it so that one can have different ocr engines and 
> have them selectable.
> I have it working with cuneiform now, but still have a few glitches which 
> I would like to sort out first.
Can you please detail out thouse "glitches?"

> Cuneiform seem to be the better engine between ocropus and cuneiform at 
> this point, but remember that ocropus is not an engine, but currently use 
> tesseract as its default engine.
> The big advantage of Cuneiform over ocropus is the speed.
> I will try to finish up the work on the kies stuff soon, but had quite a 
> few other things requiring attention, so it took longer than what I 
> thought.
Great work willam, keep it up.
> People are welcome to write me off-list about this, since it boarders on 
> being off-topic for this list.

Indeed this is off-topic and let's start a private discussion on this
issue.
I am adding one more to this OT thread because I wanted to make a
suggestion.
I suggest we setup a mailing list dedicated for blind users discussing
ocr-tts combinations.
Willem, I have already started a project which is soon to be funded by
government (approved ).
The  project will aim at integrating these free softwares (OCR, Scanning
and speech synthesizer).
I will need your help and feedback from people like james and daniel and
peeter tessar.

See you guys on the next email off list.

Wil, I don't know about what others think of this thread, but my sincear
oppologies that I added one more mail to this OT.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.