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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Volunteering to port Kooka to KDE4
From:       Brad Hards <bradh () frogmouth ! net>
Date:       2009-10-17 8:10:24
Message-ID: 200910171910.24497.bradh () frogmouth ! net
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On Saturday 17 October 2009 07:10:18 John Layt wrote:
>  If you can 
> make the OCR function an embeddable widget, kpart and Kipi plugin, then it
>  can  be used by any image management app such as Gwenview on the images it
>  manages, and you can then write a new specialised scanning app from
>  scratch around it.
>
> With regard to OCR, I guess your main support target these days would be 
> tesseract, Google's OCR engine (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/),
>  but  I think most of the old targets are still around.
I've also looked at OCR a little. Tesseract doesn't have any page layout 
analysis capabilities (e.g. it can't recognise columns). There are some tools 
in Ocropus, and they might be useful for other things (e.g. for cut-n-paste in 
Okular).

Also, note that Ocropus and Tesseract are Apache v2 licensed.

Brad
  
 
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