ocr program

[Kåre Särs]

Hi Luca,

Thanks for creating this application and sharing it with us!

The problem is that there has not been anybody eager enough to start a OCR 
frontend application so far for Qt5/KF5. As KDE is done on voluntary basis it 
is hard to "prioritize" anything. Either we get a volunteer or we don't.

I saw that Kocr is a GUI application that searches for Tesseract and Cuneiform 
and then runs the selected application on the imported images. I think these 
ideas can be useful :) 

Multi-page document scanning to pdf and OCR is quite often requested for 
Skanlite, but so far nobody has stepped up to do it :(

Thanks,
  Kåre


Ps, I compiled Kocr on KDE Neon and run it. The resulting PDF unfortunately 
broken. I have not had the time to check why.

On tisdag 12 december 2017 kl. 11:18:21 EET tringalinvent at libero.it wrote:
> 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