Re: [orca-list] Accessible scanning/ocr software

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

.. And with the new OCR engine based on LSTM neural networks, tesseract 4.0 is even better.

Wiki: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki

Didier

On 26/12/2018 16:34, John G Heim wrote:
> So lios is probably a gui front-end for tesseract. A few years ago, I wanted to scan in the Dungeons & 
> Dragons 5E players handbook. I spent a lot of time trying every OCR package I could find for linux. I did 
> my best to fine-tune the scans for each package but I was never able to come even close to the accuracy I 
> got from tesseract with any other package. But I was able to get amazing accuracy from tesseract.
>
> PS: If there is anyone out there looking for a D&D or pathfinder game, I might be able to hook you up. Or 
> if you are interested in my text file D&D 5th edition players guide let me know. I was going to post it to 
> bookshare but I couldn't get it converted to RTF.
>
>
>
> On 12/25/18 4:40 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > it's LIOS, aka Linux-intelligent-ocr-solution.
> >
> > I have queued for Slint's next big update a package built from git master on GitHub:
> > https://github.com/Nalin-x-Linux/lios-3
> > Ther is also a repo on GitLab
> > https://gitlab.com/Nalin-x-Linux/lios-3
> > but it is two commits behind at time of writing.
> >
> > LIOS is amazing. I tried most features.
> >
> > To build and run it I needed following dependencies:
> >
> > py3gobject,pyenchant,pyinsane,python3,python3-pillow,speech-dispatcher,tesseract,tesseract-data,espeak-ng
> >
> > The names may vary for another distribution.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Didier
> >
> >
> > PS:
> > LIOS drop-down menu entries are accessible with the Alt key:
> > Alt+F File
> > Alt+E Edit
> > Alt+I Image
> > Alt+S Scan
> > Alt+S Recognize
> > Alt+T Tools
> > Alt+P Preferences
> > Alt+H Help
> >  From the menu, you can navigate with the arrow keys.
> > Some commands have a key binding, indicated alongside it.
> >
> > On 25/12/2018 23:14, Andy Borka via orca-list wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > Some time ago, someone mentioned scanning/ocr software on this list. What is the name of the package? If 
> > > I remember, it resembled lilos or something similar.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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