[access-uk] Re: Free OCR
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:35:56 -0000
I heard recently that the free Bing search engine app for iPhone has an
OCR function.
Has anyone tried it?
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Kevin Cussick
Sent: 08 February 2012 08:43
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Free OCR
Last time I tried it I thought it's free for a reason yes it because
it's crap. it might be better now.
On 07/02/2012 22:41, Vince Thacker wrote:
> I've heard of FreeOCR, and once tried it, but that was a few years
> ago, so it may be unfair to comment; but at the time I couldn't
> wrestle any sensible results from it. I'm talking about some slight
> inaccuracies - the output was not at all readable (very extended
> character set, by the looks).
> Hoping it's better now.
> Vince.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Vanja Sudar <mailto:vanja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 07, 2012 9:51 PM
> *Subject:* [access-uk] Free OCR
>
> Has anyone heard of this software? The name sort of says for
itself
> what it does or should do. Is it accessible? I'm about to try it
and
> will let you know the results. You can' find this at
> http://www.paperfile.net/
> Here's what the website say about it:
> "
>
> Free OCR is a document scanning software including the Windows
> compiled Tesseract free ocr engine also known as a Tesseract GUI.
It
> includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and
> supports opening multi-page tiff documents, Adobe PDF and fax
> documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff's
> which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read .It now can scan
> using Twain and WIA scanning drivers.
>
> The Tesseract OCR PDF engine is an open source product released by
> Google. It was developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories between
> 1985 and 1995. In 1995 it was one of the top 3 performers at the
OCR
> accuracy contest organized by University of Nevada in Las Vegas.
The
> Tesseract engine source code is now maintained by Google and the
> project can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
>
> FreeOCR is a freeware document scanning software and you can do
what
> you like with it including commercial use. The included Tesseract
> free OCR engine is distributed under the Apache V2.0 license.
>
> FreeOCR V4 is soon to be released this includes Tesseract V3 which
> increases accuracy and has page layout anaysis so more accurate
> results can be achieved without using the zone selection tool.
>
> FreeOCR v4 is currently undergoing beta tesing and will be
released
> in the first half of 2011."
>
> Obviously that last part is out of date. So, if this works and is
> accessible can be a great alternative for rather expencive OCR
software.
>
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All The Best
Kevin Cussick
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