Sorry, I don't know what happened to the reply I tried to send to you the next day after getting your message. Unfortunately, I got fatal execution errors. There were two tasks I tried. One was to use the free NirCmd.exe utility to create a .tif snapshot of a window and than try to get text from it. The other was to drop in your tesseract.exe for an older, minimalist one that I include with PDF2TXT.
Here is more info on how to replicate what I was testing. NirCmd is available at
NirCmd - Windows command line tool http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html The syntax is NirCmd.exe Save ScreenShotWin FileName.tif PDF2TXT is available at http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe tesseract.exe is located by default in the directory C:\PDF2TXT\OCRIn the PDF2TXT dialog, you can press Alt+F to check the Image Format checkbox, which then causes the program to attempt OCR rather than other text extraction methods.
Let me know if you have more questions. I'm copying this message to the ProgrammingBlind list as well in case anyone thesere wants to try these tests.
JamalOn Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Soronel Haetir wrote:
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:15:10 -0900 From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-l] Re: Seeking c++ programmer to compile Windows binary of free Tesseract OCR I've just been waiting to hear back if there were any issues with the tarball I already sent your way. On 3/1/10, Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:To anyone who has been working on this, do you have anything more to report? Jamal ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq-- Soronel Haetir soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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