Re: [orca-list] OT: OCRdesktop ported to tesseract 4.0

[Mallard <mallard kimabe eu>]

Hello,


Would this be the case for Ubuntu-Mate 18.04, which I'm planning to 
install on my netbook?


Ciao,

Ollie




Il 22/03/2019 11:38, Maksym Bilak via orca-list ha scritto:
> Hey Chrys!
>
> Thank you for not forgetting about ocrdesktop. Really: both ocrdesktop 
> and ocrpdf are very useful tools.
> In Ubuntu 18.04, the language data is here:
>
> /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/
>
> 22.03.19 10:48, chrys linux-a11y org пише:
> > Howdy list,
> >
> > its a little of topic but want to share here since some are already 
> > working for hthis here.
> > i found some time yesterday to wire up OCRdesktop for tesseract 4.
> > I also fixed some deprications for tesseract, so we should be fine 
> > for next couple of years.
> > One of the points was that the language data is stored on a different 
> > place. I added the path where its located on Archlinux to the search 
> > function.
> > its:
> > /usr/share/tessdata/
> > here. if you install the tesseract data try to locate this. if this 
> > is different for you let me know, i will add the path to the search 
> > tree. Maybe there is an other way to search this as well. always open 
> > for patches to keep a awsome tool even more awsome.
> > you currently have to recompile python-tesserwrap (mabe reinstall is 
> > enought, not sure) and use OCRdesktop from master.
> > git clone https://github.com/chrys87/ocrdesktop.git
> >
> > If somebody wants to help to improve this great tool let me know. it 
> > could need some love as some of the GTK stuff deprecates as well (do 
> > they really remove the traditional menu??? how stupid - i hope i m 
> > wrong). its not complicated and i will help in any way :). but would 
> > be very sad if OCRdesktop rot. It helps a lot of people to access 
> > inaccessible interaces with orca.
> >
> > cheers chrys
> >
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