Re: [orca-list] OCR

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

Yes, it would have to be offline to be of much value. I can do the odd page hear and there with their online 
service I suppose, but to pay much for it 
it'd have to be usable everywhere, and truly unlimited.

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  MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:29:13PM +0200

> Hi,
>
> Yes, it's an offline solution, similar to what Fine reader on Windows
> does. Maybe there's some occasional Internet tracking of license
> activation (not sure at all), but it's offline.
>
> All latin languages are supported. Our partnership doesn't cover
> languages such as Russin, Arabic, etc.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Le 27/04/2016 21:16, Peter Vágner a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > Are you tallking offline OCR similar to what Fine reader on Windows does
> > or is this going to be coupled with some kind of Abbyy online service?
> > How many, or which languages might be supported?
> > If it would cost reasonable amount I would like to use it eventhough
> > it's not libre software.
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > Dňa 27. 4. 2016 19:58 používateľ "MENGUAL Jean-Philippe"
> > <jmengual linuxfromscratch org <mailto:jmengual linuxfromscratch org>>
> > napísal:
> >
> >     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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