Re: [Gnome-OCR] Integration of Tesseract-OCR...

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le lundi 27 novembre 2006 �0:55 +0100, Emmanuel Fleury a �it :
> Hi all,
> 
> As I'm pretty new here just forgive me if I'm not at the right place. :)
> 
> I am associate professor at Bordeaux-I university (France) and I have
> submitted a project for students about integrating tesseract-OCR in
> Gnome (the student project starts only in January).
> 
> My plan is more or less to:
> - make them develop a libgnome-ocr as wrapper to tesseract-OCR,
> - clean the code of tesseract-OCR,
> - refactor tesseract-OCR within the Gnome libs and,
> - try to add some extra features.
> 
> (I think the students will stop at the first item but we never know !)
> 
> I don't know exactly what should be the API and what could be the usage
> of such library but with the help of �ienne Bersac (the author of
> libgnome-scan) I though about few examples:
> - A plug-in for Abiword (outputting also formatting informations);

Great idea, you should contact the abiword developers
<abiword-dev abisource com>

> - A plug-in for e-mail readers (image spam analysis);
> - ... and so forth ...
> 
> I guess, that the API should include an initialization function, setting
> the image input format, the output format plus some settings
> (recognition strategy, drawing recognition, where to store the output, etc).
> 
> For now, waiting for the start of the project in January I'm trying to
> port Tesseract-OCR to 64bits plate-forms... and I'm a bit horrified by
> the way they handle basic types and data-structures... My guess is that
> a lot of cleaning is needed there. :-/
> 
> Anyway, is this project interesting for the Gnome community, would you
> have comments, advices or objections ?
> 
> Regards