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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Kooka tesseract support, also Qt4 support
From:       Néstor <nestorac () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-02-12 21:42:15
Message-ID: b321594e0902121342i3a6b5cbby772ba225d1799e9c () mail ! gmail ! com
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Ok, I'm taking a look, then! I'm going to comment any progress that I
make, I think that facts speak better than words.

Thanks.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Kåre Särs <kare.sars@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday 12 February 2009, Néstor wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Are there any plans of putting tesseract support on Kooka? I have
> > heard that there is a lack of love there. I'm planning to use it for
> > my ebooks. I have just bought one and it would be good to be able to
> > scan a lot of books easily, and also with images and so, and convert
> > them to many formats (I have heard that the best for my Hanlin V3
> > ebook is FictionBook2). So I'm specially interested in this program.
> > If nobody is doing this, I think I can do it myself, and updating the
> > code if it's possible. I have knowledge of C++, Qt and so, and I have
> > already developed a project for my company with these tools.
> 
> Kooka has not been ported to Qt4/KDE4. In stead there is a new library libksane and \
> an application Skanite. Skanlite only scans and saves images (so that is not for \
> you), but if you check the source code of Skanlite you notice that all the scanning \
> related is encapsulated into libksane. 
> IIRC, Thomas Gillespie was doing some ORC app. Check the archives of kde-devel May \
> 2008. 
> It seems he has made kReMail.
> 
> You could check that out :)
> 
> > 
> > My idea is to make it easy to digitalize all the stuff that I usually
> > read on physical books, so in the long-term there should be at least
> > some tools to scan and OCR texts with good accuracy and also images
> > and the like. Then, use some filters to convert them to some format
> > easily readable in an ebook. HTML is not bad, but PDF is not Ok, since
> > it's too fixed for a little display (text should have to be resized
> > and re-arranged). So my personal library is going to be digital
> > someday, even if the companies that publish books simply ignore the
> > digital formats (or you have to pay even more for the digital edition
> > than for the physical one).
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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> Kåre Särs
> 
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