Re: [orca-list] I am looking for a ocr software for orca



hello,
Thanks for the off list private email.


On 26/11/2008, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za> wrote:

Firstly, it is released under GPL version 3, so is open-source.
Great nothing like it!
It was written to be speech-friendly under the console, mostly in bash.  I
see no technical reason why it should not run in a gnome terminal as is,
but I never tried that.
yes I believe it will work.
I think ocropus has a kind  of a python api, but I do not know if it is
nicely packaged as a python module.
ok we can work on that.
I will write more instructions in a private email to you.
yes I have already got it.
I am going to try building a more userfriendly ui for this.
thanks again.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
Regards, Willem

 On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Krishnakant Mane wrote:

hi willem,
On 26/11/2008, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za> wrote:

I cannot remember if I posted on this list about it before, but there is
a
front-end as requested below in the kies package which we have released.
It currently works with ocropus and allow driving the scanner and doing
the ocr and making a document in html outof the output.
Great, is it Free and open source?  what license is it under?
Running with any screen reader it should do what is requested.
Lovely!  Is it very accessible?  Is it developed using gtk?
It is not as feature rich as the modern programs, but is usable in as
far
as the ocr from ocropus is usable.
Don't care, if it serves the main purpose it is more than enough to
start with.  Asuming it is free software, all of us dedicated will
have the freedom to modify and re distribute thus bennifit the entire
community.
In the old dos days there was a commercial program from
Arckenstone called easyscan.
This frontend I am talking about is mutch like easyscan.
The program is available on the speakup ftp server under the goodies
directory, but you can also get a copy from:
ftp://ftp.csir.co.za/mi/national_accessibility_portal/wvdwalt/kies-12869.tar.bz2
If any one wants to get this frontend going, let me know.
Yes willem, I am more than willing if it is in python, Java or c.  And
if gtk is the ui base then even better.
I want to use it on ubuntu so please send me instructions.

There are instructions under the kies_wrappers directory on getting
ocropus and this front-end going.
kies_p2t, the main script, is by no means perfect, but it does allow a
non-technical user to do ocr under linux.
Means it is a scrip not a gui. Never mind! we can write a gui for
this. i know pygtk and so does one of our (hiding shyly ) colligue
anusha who lerks on this mailing list and keenly interested to
contribute to any accessibility projects.
happy hacking.
KK
Regards, Willem

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Krishnakant Mane wrote:

hello all,
This issue has come time and time again.
I think we must setup a web based team to look at this matter.
I have seen tesseract and tried ocropus.  I feel it could be a good
software and we can persue the matter with the developers and perhaps
get it working even better.
I will provide my list of specifications in a new thread.  I recommend
we setup a small team which can work together for developing some kind
of accessible interface that can run the image scanner, do the ocr and
either create a file or even send output to espeak.
I am aware of such softwares on proprietory side and it is a shame
that we never looked at this aspect.
Never the less there are so many other things to do.
I think let's take this as serious an issue as the pdf reading (I
don't know where that issue has disapeard ) and follow up.
Interested people please respond so that I post a new thread with my
recommendations and what needs to be done about this.
I already started to work on some similar software interface and would
like to share it with other people.
happy hacking.
KK

On 26/11/2008, Johan Trujillo <johantrujillo 1907 gmail com> wrote:
                hi I am looking a ocr software that can work with orca and other
that
can pass text files to audio files thenk's for your help

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