Re: [orca-list] OCRDesktop hosting

[chrys87 web de]

Howdy Tony, howdy list,

 

thanks for your nice offer. for now its hosted on my own rootserver. but since the last mails i reconize that more people interested on ocrdesktop than I thougt.

So I will upload it to a more public place. I think github is good for doing that.

 

yes It needs some more depencys:
- tesseract-ocr
- tesseract-ocr-<your language code> #language files for tesseract-ocr... for example tesseract-ocr-eng
- libwnck-3-0

- python3-pil

- python-tesserwrap

 

on ubuntu

sudo aptitude install libwnck-3-0  python3-pil  tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng #change "eng" to your language code

on fedora

sudo dnf install libwnck3 python-pillow tesseract tesseract-langpack

python-tesserwrap is sadly not available here so you have to compile it from source.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tesserwrap
there is a setup.py this should do its job as well.

 

the script it self is located here:

http://crivatec.de/page/uploads/Downloads/Accessible%20Games/ocrdesktop-0.9.28.tar.xz

 

after that you should able to start the script without problems. assign it to a shortcut in your DE and just press the shortcut in a window that you want to OCR (see my archwiki here).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ocrdesktop

B. H. is currently working on a manpage (thanks for doing that!). for making the wiki information available local.

 

for problems/bugs/wishes just PM to me. I didnt ever test it on a other distro but for shure i will help to make the beast working ;). Maybe someone that uses that distros could provide a package.

 

cheers chrys

 

 

Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. August 2015 um 13:46 Uhr
Von: "Tony Baechler" <bats batsupport com>
An: chrys87 <chrys87 web de>
Betreff: OCRDesktop hosting

Hello,

I would be happy to host this for you. It looks like a really useful script
to have around. I have Ubuntu MATE installed and I would be happy to test.
Do I need anything other than tesseract-ocr? If you're interested, please
let me know and I can set up a private ftp upload account for you. You will
be able to upload new releases that way. Also, if you need or want a web
page, that would be no problem to host it in addition to the script. It
would be hosted under batsupport.com/unsupported/.

On 8/11/2015 10:38 AM, chrys87 wrote:
> I think so. Its a simple python script. But I never tested it because I have
> no Ubuntu :).
> If you would install the dependences manually, you could run the script. If
> you try it out I m really interested in your results. If that works I try to
> provide the app on a more public place.
> there is a small wiki for ocrdesktop:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ocrdesktop
>
>
>
> Am 11.08.2015 um 18:41 schrieb Josh K:
>> can you use it on ubuntu mate 15.04? the ocr package?
>>
>> follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982
>> On 8/10/2015 1:28 PM, Storm Dragon wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>> If you are using arch Linux, there is a package in the UR called
>>> ocrdesktop. It isn't part of Orca itself, but does the ocr thing in a way
>>> that is usable by Orca. It wors very well.
>>> You can use pidgin to do irc chat if you want a graphical client. It
>>> works wel and is completely accessible.
>>> HTH
>>> Storm
>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 07:23:49PM +0200, Dennis Westphal wrote:
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I just recently started to check out orca. After using a Macbook in the
>>>> last 6 months I wanted to play with Linux again which I thought wasn't
>>>> possible due to my rapitly loss of usable vision. It works pretty fine
>>>> though. However I still have some questions.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Is there a way to have OCR for text in pictures? NVDA seems to have
>>>> something like that but I have never played with it to that extend.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Is there a graphical IRC client that is accessible at the moment? I
>>>> just wanted to get startet with IRC.
>>>>
>>>> Oh and yes I am aware that I am kind of a little bit late to the party.
>>>>
>>>> At last I wantet to leave a huge thank you to all teh contributors to
>>>> this by all means freeing Software.
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
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>>>> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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>>>> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
>>>
>>>
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>> The manual is athttp://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
>> The FAQ is athttp://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
>> Log bugs and feature requests athttp://bugzilla.gnome.org
>> Find out how to help athttp://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
>

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