<div dir="ltr">Sirs,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thank you once again to kindling the hope for freedom from the Proprietary OCR software, particularly, ABBYY finereader.<br>Sirs, I have tested OCRfeeder and find that some functionality and interactivity needs to be added, like:<br><br>(1) The OCRed text be output onto an editable Wordprocessor rather than plain text editor with option to <br><div style="margin-left:40px">(a) map each block area to a separate textbox at same absolute position.<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">(b) Allow each block to have the option of spell-checking manually.<br><br></div>(2) Different blocks for image, plain text, formatted text and tables.<br><br></div>(3) Use of only keyboard to incorporate spellings and editing without lifting fingers from the keyboard with another interactive window with focus upon it.<br><br></div>(4) Abbyy has a <b>foolishness</b> that we <b>wouldn't</b> want <b>us</b> to <b>repeat</b>. <i>If you feed a pdf file to Abbyy it converts the characters into images and then OCRs the image and re-converts them into text, thus incorporating errors.</i><br><div><br>Then we would be proudly say that our open source OCR is the best in the world!<br><br></div><div>Alas, sirs, I am a seft-taught computer buff, and am learning scripting and programming in c. I am very sad not to be able to help you with codes! :-(<br><br></div><div>Sirs, please consider my suggestions as humble prayer.<br><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Rajib Bandopadhyay<br></div><div>Your admirer<br></div><div><div class="h5"><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><br>On 04/06/2015, Rajib Bandopadhyay <<a href="mailto:bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com" target="_blank">bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Dear Sir,<br>> Please don't thank me for using OCRFeeder. Rather, it is your values<br>> that gave us the product for free.<br>> Sir, among all Linux systems I tested, knoppix is the least<br>> CPU-hungry, for an Indian laptop which is Defective By Design. It has<br>> a NVidia GPU, and unless used, rather than the CPU, the system heats<br>> up and shuts itself down. Even Ubuntu, despite with NVidia drivers<br>> installed heats up the system.<br>> Unfortunately, only Knoppix 7.2.0 is compatible with the NVidia<br>> drivers. The latest Knoppix isn't. Also, the Debian Repo of 7.2.0 has<br>> been deprecated raising the difficulty level for me installing the<br>> package via synaptic.<br>> Sorry to have bothered you with unnecessary detail.<br>> Thank you, Sir, on behalf of FOSS community. One day I am going to use<br>> OCRFeeder with the latest Tesseract and other engines exclusively.<br>> Regards,<br>> Rajib Bandopadhyay<br>> <br>> On 04/06/2015, Joaquim Rocha <<a href="mailto:me@joaquimrocha.com" target="_blank">me@joaquimrocha.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hi Rajib,<br>>><br>>> Thank you for using OCRFeeder.<br>>><br>>> Tesseract is automatically detected if it's already installed in your<br>>> system. As for installing it, I think that it's hard to be installing<br>>> all the dependencies by hand. Why are you using Knoppix? Can't you use<br>>> Ubuntu with a live USB/CD, it should be essentially the same but Ubuntu<br>>> should have the most recent packages.<br>>><br>>><br>>> Best regards,<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Joaquim Rocha<br>>> <a href="http://www.joaquimrocha.com" target="_blank">http://www.joaquimrocha.com</a><br>>><br>>> On 02/06/15 20:57, Rajib Bandopadhyay wrote:<br>>>> Dear Sir,<br>>>> I used Abbyy Finereader from time to time obtained when I bought a<br>>>> scanner and therefore I was dependent on Windows. I used a virtualised<br>>>> windows for it.<br>>>> I tried to wean myself away from the package, but there was no<br>>>> comparative OCR like Abbyy's.<br>>>> Thank you for the software.<br>>>> Having said this, how do I include the tesseract engine to your<br>>>> software? I have a snapshot but I don't know what to do, and from<br>>>> <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/OCRFeeder" target="_blank">https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/OCRFeeder</a> I find that the help<br>>>> page is in German, but Google translation helps the first para.<br>>>> I have a Knoppix (Debian) system and I installed the package from the<br>>>> above link. In my knoppix I can't use aptitude. It is an old version..<br>>>> So I downloaded the tesseract .deb file to use gdebi, but it has<br>>>> several dependencies. How do I use tesseract, or any other engine from<br>>>> scratch without synaptic?<br>>>> Eager to hear from you,<br>>>> Rajib<br>>><br>>><br>><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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