Re: [orca-list] OCRdesktop 3.0 Released

[Linux A11y <chrys linux-a11y org>]

Howdy,

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

Of course. I can do that. But we furst have to bring some other stuff in place ;).

By the way. I just merged master into plugin_system branch. So they are equal besides the plugin stuff.

Cheers chrys

> Am 17.01.2022 um 16:13 schrieb Arkadiusz Kozioł via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>:
>
> 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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