Re: [orca-list] OCRdesktop 3.0 Released

[Arkadiusz Kozioł <zywek-mailing nvps pl>]

Will you add it into orca when this version with plugins availability 
will be ready? It would be great, when screenreader have ocr inside.

W dniu 12.01.2022 o 22:12, chrys pisze:
> Howdy List,
>
> sorry for cross posting, but I thought you might be interested into that.
> I just released OCRdesktop 3.0 with some very nice stuff :).
> For those who don't know about OCRdesktop:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ocrdesktop
>
> 1. i removed unmaintained "tesserwrap" bindings and use "pytesseract" 
> now. This is very good maintained and is able to use Tesseract 4.1.x 
> and Tesseract 5.0. Last didnt work with tesserwrap anymore cause by 
> broken API.
> 2. Removed all deprecation warnings, Modernize the code, use spaces 
> instead of Tab and all kind of cleanup goodness.
> 3. i added an very nice new feature to analyze the color of an given 
> Text and its background. So you can figure what text is highlighted, 
> has the focus and all kind of useful stuff. its off by default and 
> could be used by "-O" flag as parameter. For this we need some new 
> dependency webcolor and scipy.
>
> See the full story here:
> https://www.patreon.com/posts/ocr-desktop-60895292
> https://www.patreon.com/posts/color-analyzing-60988555
>
> Where to get:
>
> https://github.com/chrys87/ocrdesktop/releases/tag/v3.0
>
> Depencys:
> - python3
> - tesseract
> - tesseract-lang-<yourLanguageCode>
> - python3-pillow
> - python-atspi
> - python-pytesseract
> - libwnck3
> - GTK3
> Optional Depencys
> - python-scipy (for color detection)
> - python-webcolors (for color detection)
>
> I hope you have as much fun while using it as i had while working on 
> it :).
> have a good day and stay healthy in those crazy times.
>
> cheers chrys
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