ocr program

[tringalinvent at libero.it]

Hi Albert,
I understand, and the fact itself that today KDE does not have an official OCR GUI means that this is not considered a priority.
Anyway, if and when someone will be interested in making a GUI like this part of some KDE Graphics program I think my code would be useful.
So thanks for your reply, and just let me know if anyone needs help in editing the code of Kocr.


Luca Tringali

In data lunedì 11 dicembre 2017 23:00:20 CET, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> ha scritto:
> El dilluns, 11 de desembre de 2017, a les 15:06:05 CET, 
> tringalinvent at libero.it va escriure:
> > Hello everybody,
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > a few months ago I was looking for a OCR gui that could offer three
> > different kinds of output: plain text, formatted HTML, and PDF. Since I was
> > not able to find one, I wrote a GUI for both Tesseract and Cuneiform (which
> > is quite better in formatting recognition than Tesseract). The code is
> > published on github: https://github.com/zorbaproject/kocr
> > 
> > It is based on libpoppler and QPDfWriter for reading and writing PDFs. It's
> > not rich of features, it just has what my girlfriend needed when she asked
> > me about a GUI for OCR.
> > 
> > I believe this code could be integrated into Skanlite or Okular, or maybe
> > become a Kipi plugin for Gwenview. After all, there is no official GUI in
> > KDE for optical character recognition engines.
> 
> This sounds interesting but given you're placing it almost as abandonware i'm 
> not sure we should take it in unless there's someone really really interested 
> in maintaining it.
> 
> In my opinion we have far too many "community maintained" software already.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > 
> > I've also built packages for Windows and Debian
> > (https://github.com/zorbaproject/kocr/releases/tag/v0.3), this could be
> > useful to understand how the program is designed to work in particular on
> > Windows. The README.md file contains a section called "How to use Kocr",
> > which should give you an idea of the workflow.
> > 
> > Just to be clear, I'm not a full time programmer (I'm a journalist), and I
> > don't have time to keep working on this program. I'm releasing this code to
> > let other programmers not have to start from scratch while building a OCR
> > program for KDE. I'll be happy to help making this program part of KDE, but
> > I don't have a lot of spare time so I don't know how much I'll be able to
> > help. For sure, I'll try to reply to your questions as soon as I can.
> > 
> > 
> > Luca Tringali
> 
> 
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