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Kooka Development
by Anon on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @14:43

Will Kooka be supporting the google supported open source OCR project "Tesseract OCR" ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr

Please!!!! We need a better OCR program for Kooka!! It'll benefit everyone, gocr is sooo bad.

Below: gocr output, from a human readable scan!

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Re: Kooka Development
by Lee on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @15:07

Oh dear. That's bad :)

It's always nice to know that the FOSS world has world-class products, and so tesseract's engine would be great to have for actual OCRing. I think we'd really need a layer on top of that which supports page layout analysis, though. These days, any decent OCR program should be able to output a fairly close copy of the original, but translated into html (images, text, tables, etc.) and/or ODF.

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Re: Kooka Development
by Anon on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @22:17

vote for the wish to add tesseract ocr to kooka.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135253

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Re: Kooka Development
by Kevin Kofler on Sunday 24/Feb/2008, @16:04

Don't spit on gocr, there are testcases where it performs a lot better than Tesseract. But yes, support for Tesseract would be nice to have.

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Re: Kooka Development
by Mate on Monday 25/Feb/2008, @06:42

Maybe, but I have a lot of problems with it... but I know it is a *very* difficult task. Also, there is a lot of money to be earned if you know this kind of stuff (OCR is very hot for multiple reasons), so asking it to be done free will not yield the best results.

I like gocr, but I would love to have it improved! :)

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