Re: [orca-list] OCR

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

In theory I would be interested, I mean I am not totally against paying for software, and will pay for what I 
need if it truly meets those needs. 
I do little OCR however, and am very lucky in that a friend shared a proprietary program with me as she can 
because of a multi seat license.
 Still, if the price were right I'd consider purchase when finances permit. 
I just wanted to say that the lios interface seems to suffer from a few performance/accessiblity quriks 
typical of many qt programs. 
If a couple labels were changed to be more clear, and the interface were GTK instead of QT I wonder if it 
would be easier to use?
I thought older versions of lios were easier to use than the current 2.x release. Feature set is good I think.
And anyone who has read my thoughts knows I also have found tesseract does not provide the quality of ocr 
with a high percentage of the documents I've 
tried  OCR on that I and others need, certainly for anything official, legal, or otherwise critical. Even 
just for basic comprehention it has been 
lacking for me too often. Sometimes it has worked pretty well, but we are talking something like 70% accuracy 
compared with 90% with the ocr engine used 
by the kurzweil 1000 I have used a bit.
       
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  MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 07:58:08PM +0200

> Hi,
>
> After test of various OCR, I feel that Tesseract, the most advanced OCR
> engine on Linux, hasn't noawadays all ways to be as performant as
> commercial utilities. Even if it's wrapped in some tools like Lios
> or gimagereader, the performance is still difficult to use for "basic"
> users (I mean, the Windows users who don't have any technical knowledge
> or who use computer just for needs).
>
> That's why I had a look at what provide proprietary world, waiting for
> having money enough to create a full OCR suite, free and based on
> Tesseract. Create or improve, as Lios and gimagereader are
> excellent points of beginning, but some things are hard to understand
> for our users in GUI (after tests).
>
> And we needed a quick solution, so that the GNU/Linux OS could be usable
> by everyone now, including OCR matter, so that they buy service and
> finance our devs projects for free software. But I wonder now if some
> usual GNU/Linux users here could be interested by such a product. What
> we reach now is a suite for 200E, including:
> - Abbyy FindReader 11, unlimited in number of pages thanks to an
> agreement between Abbyy and Hypra based on the fact we do a free program
> and designed for blind people with specifific needs in OCR,
> - A package to run it on MATE. 2 ways:
> * from an image file, right-click, choose the proper option
> * from a scanner: we give a command to create a binding (as ours in
> linked against Compiz).
>
> I precise that the utility could also use Tesseract if FindReader is
> missing, but in such case, it will be free.
>
> Would some users interested by such solution? I "like" it as it
> introduces OCR on GNU/Linux and enable some unusual users to come.
> Waiting for a full "libre" solution, accessible for such people.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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