Re: [orca-list] using skype with orca

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
two OCR packages are gocr and ocrad, and both of these work reasonably
well for me. The most important thing is to make sure the images are in
the correct resolution (my scanners default is 600 but it needs to be
300, until I realised this I was lucky if it got one character correct
on a page, where as now it is good enough to know what is meant to be
there if there is any errors). You can pipe the output from the sane
tools to these (eg. scanimage --resolution=300 | ocrad - ). There is
also tesseract ocr, but I haven't got that working although it came from
a commercial OCR package from the 1990s as I understand.

Also if you want a GUI, then I think xsane provides a full system to
scan and get OCR, although not as quick as typing in the piped command
above (particularly if you create a script to shorten it).

Michael Whapples
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 21:20 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Aruni Sharma wrote:
>
> > for those who are not I have a very good news. I have been able to
> > configure the pidgin plugin for skype and I am now able to use skype
> > for all practical purposes.
>
> Really? So calls work? How do I set it up?
> I'm just curious.
>
> > Now I would like to know whether there is a good OCR software
> > accessible with orca.
>
> Probably sane I guess from a terminal and then you will need to find a
> package to convert the image into text. Sorry, I don't have the ocr
> names as
> in the converters from picture to text at hand.
> I haven't tried it myself its just the replies I got when I asked. I
> hope to try soon though.