Re: [orca-list] OCR

[Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org>]

Hi,

It's a must to have ocr for reading my paper mail. Right now LIOS fits 
my needs, working with Ubuntu and Orca.
Milton

Op 27-04-16 om 19:58 schreef MENGUAL Jean-Philippe:
> 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,