[maemo-developers] OCR for Fremantle

[From: Joaquim Rocha]

Hi,

On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 11:47 +0200, acano at dsic.upv.es wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am working at the university in order to create an OCR for  
> recognizing hand writing characters.
> 
> We would be very interested in trying to improve the OCR that now is  
> used on harmattan.
> 
> Please, could someone tell me if I can obtain the sources of it for  
> recompiling?
> If yes, from where can I download them?

I don't know about Harmattan's OCR but you can use Tesseract like Dave
said or even Ocrad which is easy to compile under Maemo like I did for
this experiment:

http://www.joaquimrocha.com/2009/08/21/ocrfeeder-running-in-fremantle/
http://www.joaquimrocha.com/2009/10/07/ocrfeeder-repository-relocation-and-maemo-preview/

If you're aiming for handwritten char-by-char recognition instead of
cursive text, then Ocrad might be enough imho.


Cheers,

--
Joaquim Rocha
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