Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:21:27 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks for the info. Can you distribute more documentation with it? I
guess PrintKey.exe is the utility, itself, rather than an installer.
When I ran it, there were no messages, either from a GUI or a command
prompt. I tried typical help command-line parameters to no avail. What
is .mdi format (I have not heard of it before)? Can any version of
Microsoft Word read it? How does one do this with Word?
Assuming the program works as you have described (though I need to learn
specific steps of invocation), it seems considerably different in purpose
than PDF2OCR. It seems that PrintKey is for learning about a screen
image, whereas PDF2OCR is for learning about a PDF file. Both involve OCR
(though PrintKey does not do this, itself), but the types of information
to be accessed in a typically temporarl, static screen image are usually
different than the content of a potentially large or formal piece of
writing in a PDF.
Jamal
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007,
inthaneelf wrote:
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:03:32 -0700
> From: inthaneelf <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
>
> you can google for it, but I have put it up on my grab bag site for
> download, and the text that accompanies the link tells you how to use it for
> this purpose.
>
> its a self contained executable, that you generally would go and click on to
> use, I put it in a folder in my programs files folder and generally put a
> shortcut to it in CO:\Documents and Settings\[my user named folder]\Start
> Menu\Programs\Startup
> or for a universal (all users of the computer run on it:
> CO:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
>
> this loads it at start up and makes it available by just hitting the old
> "print screen" button on your keyboard. but you can just make a shortcut to
> it anywhere, and start it if you need it, so your not loading unneeded items
> at boot up.
>
> HTH,
> Inthane
> . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links
> to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at:
> http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
> . to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming
> languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
> http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eileen Lafond" <Eileen.Lafond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
>
>
> Where do you get print screen?
>
> Eileen La Fond
> Phone (206) 386-0011
> e.mail Eileen.LaFond@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >>> "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 9/14/2007 2:29 PM >>>
> I understand, print screen is a small utility that Jay Macarty , put out as
> a interim solution for folks that had to deal with screen images sent to
> them by clients, to OCR them, so I thought in the spirit of seeing how this
> free OCR module that your using did compared to other scanners that are free
> also I would run it through it.
>
> and yes, the setup I am talking about is for OCRing a completely graphic
> image and attempting to render it into a text version.
>
> I wasn't trying to be offensive Jamal, but testing your program against some
> others isn't a bad idea, to give you an idea of how well it, and this
> freebee OCR module does compared to other things out here, that are free, or
> included in suite's that a lot of us have?
>
> inthane
> . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links
> to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at:
> http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
> . to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming
> languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
> http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
>
>
> > FYI -- the 1.0 release version is considerably better than the beta
> > version due to performing OCR on a page-by-page basis and to the
> > convenience of converting any number of PDFs in a directory with a
> > single command. PDF2OCR does work on text-based as well as image-based
> > PDFs, but the results on text-based ones are generally not as good as
> > with other utilities that extract the text directly rather than
> > analyzing the picture of each page.
> >
> > Jamal
> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, inthaneelf wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:52:12 -0700
> >> From: inthaneelf <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
> >>
> >> and print screen, lets see how this freebee works out, smile
> >>
> >> and Jamal, I appreciate what your working on, just want to make sure your
> >> getting at least 60% of what your hoping for out of it.
> >>
> >> inthane
> >> . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and
> >> Links
> >> to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at:
> >> http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
> >> . to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming
> >> languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
> >> http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:47 AM
> >> Subject: RE: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
> >>
> >>
> >> > If someone wants to submit a sample, I can run it through the PDF tools
> >> > that
> >> > come with OmniPage 15. Also, someone else should run the sample
> >> > through
> >> > the
> >> > image printer and OCR built into MS Word.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
> >> > Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> >> > Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
> >> >
> >> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-
> >> >> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
> >> >> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:42 AM
> >> >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >> Subject: Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
> >> >>
> >> >> I would expect better results from Kurzweil 1000, which uses arguably
> >> >> the highest grade commercial OCR technology. The free Adobe Reader
> >> >> does
> >> >> not do OCR, so would not make the sample file accessible.
> >> >>
> >> >> Jamal
> >> >
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