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Ocropus 4.4. crashes on Xubuntu 10.4.

I have problems with Ocropus 4.4. (open source OCR). I installed Ocropus and neccessary libries following this script. Compilation/Installation goes without any problem. However after successful installation of ocropus, I am not able to run any of ocropus-* commands. Ocropus-page and ocropus-hocr crash without giving any error meaningfu...

ocr using a command line tool

hello folks, I'm looking for a windows command line tool that does OCR. Specifically I'm trying to extract the number from this image: http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6075/wantocr.png I've tried tesseract and found it quite poor imho. Perhaps it needs settings that I'm not aware of. I've tried a few others and they too were pretty p...

Windows OCR and ICR Libraries

I have been tasked with finding an Imaging/OCR/ICR SDK that we can use in our Delphi Application. I needs to do the following: Work with Delphi XE (Don't care if it's ActiveX or a DLL) It needs to work on a server with zero human intervention. Needs to Support OCR and ICR in a given Rect or Zone. Needs to return confidence level for a...

How to highlight a word in an image?

I'd like to be able to highlight a word in an image of a document when the user searches for that word. Exactly like Google Books does here. As far as I know, Tesseract and other open source OCR programs don't support this sort of function, so does anyone have any ideas how it might be done? ...

OCR free library to use with VC++

Where can I find a free OCR library to use with VC++? I need to read computer generated numbers. ...

How to recognize characters in an image using OCR without specifying any language?

Is there a way to recognize characters in an image using OCR without specifying any (human) languages? Note: I have a set of characters (with a specific font) in an image. The content that consists of these characters in meaningless (from a language point of view) like a car no. Is there a way to (programmatically or by using a product...

GOCR Language Support

Hi, Im currently using GOCR to do some ocr stuff in my code. I want to know whether gocr has any other language support or whether it is there in their road-map. Im unable to find it in their website. Any information regarding this would be helpful. Thanks ...

JQUERY/JS: Simple OCR for a simple math operations

Hi to all Dear Coders, i have opened this new question because i would like to make a simple script in Jquery or Javascript that read from very simple images the figures. This is an example of image: And this is an easy tutorial how to make: TUT Math Image And then i have see this script that read all phrases: Megaupload auto-fill ...

need OCR c# code for text recognition in images

HI i need to find the text that are in images programmatically... Please any one share me the code or links regarding this ...

Help with Tessnet2

Hi, I need advance. I am trying to use Tessnet2 lib to recognize text of image. Image consist a string with five characters(chars and digit). I downloaded lib from http://www.pixel-technology.com/freeware/tessnet2/. Add refrence on this lib in my project. Then I downloaded language data definition file (from http://code.google.com/p/t...

How to read values off a Windows app?

I need to pull values off a Windows application at regular intervals. Since the values do not appear in a field, I am not able to use Win32 API calls to get them (I figured that out using WinID, a tool that will display information on windows and controls and stuff). I tried using the Office MODI OLE object and the Tesseract CLI tool, b...

Any interesting OCR/NLP related projects for CS final year project?

I am a final year CS student, and very interested about OCR and NLP stuffs. The problem is I don't know anything about OCR yet and my project duration is only for 5 months. I would like to know OCR & NLP stuff that is viable for my project? Is writing a (simple) OCR engine for a single language too hard for my project? What about addi...

OCR for Windows Phone 7

Does Windows phone 7 have an OCR API? ...

Recognizable numbers using PHP

Hi all, I’m trying to extract some numbers ranging from 1-99 from a picture. I’ve tried several OCR methods using PHP, but eventually my script will fail, since the numbers occasionally is rotated 5% to the left or right. This making the picture not being recognizable. View example of my numbers: http://d.imagehost.org/view/0373/screen...

Tesseract OCR - Newbie Questions!

I just installed Tesseract OCR and was able to convert a TIF image to its corresponding text. The application seems fairly easy to use, but I am struggling finding the documentation that will help me make the most of it. So, here are a couple of questions I hope someone here can help me with: I'm converting PDFs to TIFs using ImageMagi...

How to scan a thing from a iphone application

i want to know how to scan a paper from a iphone cam and i need to read the data on the paper later i want to store the data... is it possible..? please give me a thought... Thanks.. ...

How to read the text from an image in iphone

Hi all... i want to read text in an image how to do that... Thanks ...

Delphi / Tesseract OCR: Can somebody help me get this new DLL working in Delphi?

There is this great open-source OCR component that Google has been developing: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ They have a new version out (version 3) at the beginning of October 2010. But this new version no longer has a working C wrapper, and it's up to somebody in the Delphi community to get it to work from inside Delphi -- ...

Compare text within two images, but regardless of color

I want to compare two images. On both images you can see a digit. For example: (img1: "5" img2: "5") img1 is a pure black digit. But img2 could be in various colors. The background is white. It doesn't matter what color is on img2, if there is a "5", it has to be matched. How do I compare these images? It has to be a fast method. Any c...