Re: [orca-list] OCR in Orca?

[Linux A11y <chrys linux-a11y org>]

Howdy,

Sounds like you wanna have OCRdesktop. 
It already uses tesseract for its job and offers a wide range of possabilitys (like perform macros bevore OCR 
process to be able to shot submenues and stuff as well)

It was initial a orca customisation, but orca is not able to react for shortcuts in Applikations what doesnt 
implement ATK / AT-SPI by design.  This is bad for a OCR tool where we mostly wanna get stuff translated 
where the screenreader doesnt get the Information we want.
Thats why i thought its more useful living outside of orca.

As i m currently very hard side tackled by my job and house building, i would be very happy to get support in 
maintaining OCRdesktop.

Cheers chrys

> > Am 14.09.2020 um 13:40 schrieb J.G via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>:
> >
> > 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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