Re: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software
Re: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software
- Subject: Re: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software
- From: Joe Koski <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:33:16 -0700
on 3/5/04 12:12 AM, Dominic Dunlop at email@hidden wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2004, at 23:28, Paul N. Schatz wrote:
>> Has any OCR software been compiled for or used with X11.app?
>
> Well, I'm not using any such software, but your question piqued my
> interest. I find that Clara OCR (http://www.claraocr.org) builds quite
> easily. A couple of tweaks are required:
>
> 1. Comment out the definition of modff() in preproc.c, since Apple's
> library provides this function; and
> 2. make the COPTS line in Makefile read
> COPTS = -DHAVE_POPEN -DMEMCHECK -DFUN_CODES -DHAVE_SIGNAL -DTEST
> -DBIG_ENDIAN
>
> Despite the fact that the FAQ says "Currently Clara OCR won't run on
> big-endian CPUs" and the PowerPC is big-endian, the resulting X Window
> application seems to work: following the Tutorial on the web site, I
> can start to train the application on the test documents delivered with
> the source.
>
> Yes, train: it's very basic software, reminding me of stuff I was using
> on 68k Macs a dozen years ago. Still, it is free, whereas Omnipage will
> set you back $500. Well, maybe they've got an educational price, but,
> even so...
There is a middle ground for OS X. ReadIris Pro 9.0 at about $130 works well
for me. I used Omnipage on-and-off for years, but had trouble with the price
and keeping it current.
Joe Koski
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