[Okular-devel] OCR Tool for Okular

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dissabte, 6 d'abril de 2013, a les 00:36:39, Anıl Özbek va escriure:
> That would be great. I've started to read related documents like "The
> development lifecycle for a new application" and "Get a Contributor
> Account" from KDE TechBase.
> 
> By the way, when I searched deeper I found two similar app to my future
> scr2ocr:
> 
> * ocr_copy: https://github.com/spreelanka/ocr_copy
> * liveocr: https://github.com/gkovacs/liveocr
> 
> these (they're not complete and therefore not work as expected, at
> least for me) and KSnapshot, QSnapshot, ScreenGrab, YASCU-Qt etc.
> screen capture softwares may help me writing scr2ocr.
> 
> But I don't sure about screen capturing part in scr2ocr, maybe I don't
> need implement it at all. Screen captureres or softwares' internal
> tools do this for me :) For example (may be not a good one but):
> 
> $ ksnapshot --region --copy-to-stdout | scr2ocr

This kind of interfacing with ksnapshot would make much sense, maybe you could 
even call ksnapshot internally to make it transparent to the user. You can try 
approaching Richard to see how he'd fell for such a feature to exist.

> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298493
> 
> I hope I can contribute directly to Okular in future. There are some
> very nice feature requests at KDE Bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=okular

We have lots of things to work on :-)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Regards,
> --
> Anıl Özbek
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