Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread Michael Grant
I have used expensify.com at work. They have a free tier. Scanning and an app on the phone that you just take a photo of receipts as you go works well. If you can limit your expenses to 10 scans a month it's free.

Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, I will test it, happy to know a new tool. Is it based on tesseract as well or is it your own engine? Best regards, Le 23/08/2017 à 08:21, Jerome Flesch a écrit : > Hello, > > Since it may be relevant, I'm going to do some advertisement for my > own software : https://openpaper.work . > >

Re : Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Oh indeed, this case is very complex. Another possible thing is to train tesseract for this kind fo situations, but it is a heavy process indeed. regards Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: cont...@hypra.fr Site Web: http://www.hypra.fr - Joe a

Re : Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Ok interesting, I will test and do feedbacks. The people I work with is interesting for testing because blind, as myself. Then they need a good quality OCR to read common image files. When I searched two years ago, I had not found very accessible an performant software (gimagereader is in GTK bu

Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread Joe
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:22:37 +1000 "Stephen Grant Brown" wrote: > Hi All, > What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given > immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely If you mean general retail receipts, are you sure this is a practical proposition? I have to look clo

Re: OCR

2017-08-23 Thread Jerome Flesch
It's based on Tesseract. It can also use Cuneiform, but results are not as good. 2017-08-23 8:55 GMT+02:00 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe : > Hi, > > > I will test it, happy to know a new tool. Is it based on tesseract as well > or is it your own engine? > > > Best regards, > > > > Le 23/08/2017 à 08:21,

Re: OCR

2017-08-22 Thread Jerome Flesch
Hello, Since it may be relevant, I'm going to do some advertisement for my own software : https://openpaper.work . I hope it can help you, 2017-08-23 0:22 GMT+02:00 Stephen Grant Brown : > Hi All, > What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given immediately > after making a pur

Re: OCR

2017-08-22 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, Many great solutions exist now for OCR on Linux. 1. Free software: gimagereader (uses Tesseract), works all right, as well as gocr 2. Other free solution: Hypra developed Ocrizer. If you install it, you can: - from a shortcut, running the scanning process, the characters recognition, and o

Re: OCR

2017-08-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Probably CamScanner on a smartphone. On 8/22/17 3:22 PM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi All, What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practic

Re: OCR

2017-08-22 Thread Doug
On 08/22/2017 05:22 PM, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi All, What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown I wish there was a good OCR in Linux, but if there is, I don't know of it. You need Windows. Abbyy

Re: OCR

2010-12-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 12. 2010 23:57:10 je Debian TR napisal(a): So what do you suggest? are there good commercial softwares for linux or should i find a win software which works under wine? The last time I used OCR (talking about 15 years ago), it was on a Windows machine and there was no need for

Re: OCR

2010-12-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Dec 2010, Bernd Kloss wrote: > > > > I've found that the Debian tesseract package (tesseract-ocr-eng) works > > very well, with extremely few errors. > > But isn't it cli - only? > regards > It is, but is that a problem? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone -

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Doug
On 12/01/2010 03:57 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Nov 2010, deloptes wrote: Debian TR wrote: Hi everyone, I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if I didn't get it wrong, tesseract is one of

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Debian TR
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 22:55 +0100, deloptes wrote: > Debian TR wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed > > that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if > > I didn't get it wrong, tesseract is one of the best

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread deloptes
Anthony Campbell wrote: >> > > I've found that the Debian tesseract package (tesseract-ocr-eng) works > very well, with extremely few errors. > ok well I forgot to mention that usually latin chars are not a problem also for g/jocr but it's not enough. yes tessaract eng works fine. agree. reg

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2010 schrieb Anthony Campbell: > On 30 Nov 2010, deloptes wrote: > > Debian TR wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed > > > that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if > > > I d

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Nov 2010, deloptes wrote: > Debian TR wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed > > that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if > > I didn't get it wrong, tesseract is one of the best softwares (maybe t

Re: OCR

2010-11-30 Thread deloptes
Debian TR wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed > that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if > I didn't get it wrong, tesseract is one of the best softwares (maybe the > best one) I'm off this topic for the pas

Re: OCR for page with multiple languages and hand written)

2008-05-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:08:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > GOCR might, but I *seriously* doubt it. And I doubt that any app > besides one designed for Hebrew would work. For Hebrew there's hocr . http://hocr.berlios.de/ Upstream has some interesting changes not included (yet?) in the Debi

Re: OCR for page with multiple languages and hand written)

2008-05-10 Thread Paul Csanyi
Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to run OCR application on hand written pages ? You can try this ocr: http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ http://groundstate.ca/ocr Ocropus is the motherload of Free OCR. It began as a combination of a handwriting analysis engine and a layout

Re: OCR for page with multiple languages and hand written)

2008-05-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/08 05:12, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello,... > > > Is there a way to run OCR application on hand written pages ? > > > for example Holocaust survivor pages : > > http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_FL/.cmd/acd/.ar/sa.portlet.

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-24 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS >> Windows >> and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software >> under >> Linux is very poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS Windows > and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software > under > Linux is very poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for > that: unfortunately my test see

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 07:54:40PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 7/21/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nelson Castillo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> > On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
If you install as stated above with aptitude, tesseract-ocr-data is automatically installed unless you change default behavior of aptitude. FTBFS is just package issue. This package should work. Otherwise, please file bug report. Osamu, thanks a lot. The package works well. Sorry -- if I was

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 7/21/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nelson Castillo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Nelson Castillo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Why not use the Debian package? It is called "t

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". Yes. But it is old 1.02 version and has FTBFS bug.

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". Yes. But it is old 1.02 version and has FTBFS bug. If anyone here is interesed to help maintain update w

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] > I installed tesseract with configure, make, make install, then tried to run it > but got the following error message: > > Unable to load unicharset file /usr/local/share/tessdata/eng.unicharset > > . In the README file ther

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS Windows > and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software > under > Linux is very poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for > that: unfortunately my test see

Re: OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)

2007-07-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:10:27PM +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software under Linux is very > > poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for that: > > unfortunately my test seems to confirm that. What do you Debian > >

Re: OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)

2007-07-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software under Linux is very > poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for that: > unfortunately my test seems to confirm that. What do you Debian > listers think? I think you should check out these articles. http:/

Re: OCR software for Linux?

1998-12-07 Thread Jens Ritter
"Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Does anyone know of any Optical Character Recognition software for Linux? > I'd love to have this capability with my brand-new scanner. > > peloy.- There exist some, but non in a usable state yet. See: http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/