Re: [orca-list] OCR in Orca?

["J.G" <jozko gregorc gmail com>]

and what about tesseract engine
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/

regards,
Jožef

2020-09-14 13:29 GMT+02.00, Peter Vágner via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>:
> Hello,
>
> Are yo aware of OCRDesktop by Chrys?
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ocrdesktop
>
> It's great and works very well.
>
> Perhaps for the future it should be more tightly integrated however there
> are security and conveniece issues to consider that I think are not trivial
> to solve.
>
> For me it's very usefull even at this point.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> 13. 9. 2020 2:08:06 Jason White via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>:
>
> > Chrome (and probably Chromium) have an image recognition feature that
> > depends on a Google server. I don't know whether this includes OCR though.
> >
> > On 9/12/20 3:22 AM, Vojtěch šmiro via orca-list wrote:
> > > Good Morning,
> > >
> > > OCR is great idea. Many screenreaders has this and it would be usefull
> > > for many users.
> > >
> > > Thanks for all your great job!
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Vojta.
> > >
> > > Dne 12. 09. 20 v 9:14 Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-list napsal(a):
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Reading a webpage, I am wondering wether we could not enable Orca to use
> > > > an OCR engine to decrypt things just like tables inserted via images or
> > > > things like this. Would be helpful in some situations on the Web.
> > > >
> > > > I ask here for user feedbacks and Joanie technical opinions about the
> > > > idea I am thingking about:
> > > > - the OCR feature would take the graphical object under the caret (or
> > > > the flat review)
> > > > - would send it as an image to an OCR engine
> > > > - would open a "subwindow" and paste the OCR result, just lke a window
> > > > pop-up to make the link list appear
> > > >
> > > > Would be it useful? feasible? If not in Orca, is it possible for an
> > > > external tool to know where Orca caret place (browsing cursor) and use
> > > > it?
> > > >
> > > > Best regards
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