hey! its great that you are already in contact with some people! personally i like the idea. you should probably also contact the evince people to see if they are interested to mentor you. daniel On Fr, 2010-03-19 at 01:58 +0530, Mukund Raghothaman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a student aiming to be one of the lucky few selected by GNOME > under SoC this summer. I've browsed through > http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas, but wish to work on an > idea of my own. > > I wish to develop GNOME's support for OCR - I commonly read scanned > documents in evince, and find it a pain to search for text without > Ctrl-F. I would develop a common OCR framework, which together with > plugins for specific applications like evince and GNOME Scan, would > provide a common OCR interface, much like the current print window, or > the scan window provided by GNOME Scan. Underneath the hood, there > would be a pluggable interface that worked with multiple OCR libraries > like Tesseract and Ocropus. As Etienne put it, I'd probably want to > make an API out of what OCRFeeder does, and allow different > applications to use that API. > > At a more ambitious level, I want to provide handwriting recognition > support also - a GTK widget that would allow handwriting recognition, > and a similar tool for offline handwriting recognition also. This > would be similar to the tools provided in Windows, and would be of > major help to those using tablet PCs. If this were done, I see people > using Xournal and OpenOffice.org with the same enthusiasm as Office > OneNote. Again, as Etienne says, handwriting is along a different > track, and it would probably work well as a post-SoC project. But > still, my project idea is along a standard document-recognition > interface in GNOME. > > I've already contacted Etienne, from GNOME Scan, and Joaquim Rocha, > from OCR Feeder. They asked me to present this idea on this list, to > see what everybody had to say. > > Up up? or Down down? > > Thanks, > Mukund > _______________________________________________ > gnome-soc-list mailing list > gnome-soc-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-soc-list -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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