Thanks for your work on this. I hope you also saw another message I just posted describing the Tesseract tests I am trying.
One accessible way of sharing large files is the following web site:Blind File Sharing : Internet file storage and delivery for the visually impaired
http://www.blindfilesharing.com/I'm copying another blind programming related list because some people there are also working on this, so I hope we can share info and collaborate as much as possible.
JamalOn Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Manish Agrawal wrote:
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 22:12:59 +0530 From: Manish Agrawal <manish10@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [program-l] Seeking c++ programmer to compile Windows binary of free Tesseract OCR Jamal, I have version 2.0.3 working with libtiff included. The bin.dbg file after zipping comes to about 22 MB. Is there somewhere I can upload it for you before I try this with version 3.0? I tested this with just some tiff file I had lying around. What can I do to verify that this has the compression you need? -Manish -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:55 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [program-l] Seeking c++ programmer to compile Windows binary of free Tesseract OCR At this point, I think the 3.0 pre-release would be preferable since it includes other OCR enhancements. Certainly, however, if you cannot get that working but can get the earlier stable release working, that would be valuable progress. Thanks for your interest Jamal On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Manish Agrawal wrote:Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:36:48 +0530 From: Manish Agrawal <manish10@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [program-l] Seeking c++ programmer to compile Windows binaryoffree Tesseract OCR I can give it a try. I worked with c++ some years ago and am not sure if I'll be able to deliver the goods. There appear to be two different versions, 2.0.4 (which appears to be the stable version) and 3.0.0 (current/prerelease). Which one do you wantbuiltwith the libtif included? -Manish -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 5:53 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Fwd: [program-l] Seeking c++ programmer to compile Windows binary of free Tesseract OCR A couple people from another list said they would try to do this, but as far as I know, no working binary is available yet. Can any C++ programmers here tackle the problem? Jamal -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [program-l] Seeking c++ programmer to compile Windows binary of free Tesseract OCR Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:52:55 -0500 From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx I think Google Tesseract is generally considered to be the best, free OCR engine at this time. It is available in cross-platform C++ source code. A Windows binary is available, but as far as I can tell, it does not incorporate a free TIF library that would support more common .tif formats than the default, uncompressed, minimalist TIF format that the available binary is limited to. However, a Microsoft Visual c++ 2008 project file is also available for compiling Tesseract to Windows binary form, and supposedly, the TIF library can be incorporated in such a solution. I do not know C++, so am hoping that another programmer can build this for us. A starting page for Tesseract is the following: ReadMe - tesseract-ocr - Important information all Tesseract users need to know. - Project Hosting on Google Code http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ReadMe 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 __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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