Hi Frank, It's not so easy especially having dependency on native libraries. It's also depends on "trained" profiles, languages & fonts.
The questions are - what are platforms we want to support. what are languages and fonts. BR, Oleg On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:48 AM, frank (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-93?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13856214#comment-13856214] > > frank commented on TIKA-93: > --------------------------- > > this feature is really useful and helpful. > > > OCR support > > ----------- > > > > Key: TIKA-93 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-93 > > Project: Tika > > Issue Type: New Feature > > Components: parser > > Reporter: Jukka Zitting > > Priority: Minor > > > > I don't know of any decent open source pure Java OCR libraries, but > there are command line OCR tools like Tesseract ( > http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) that could be invoked by Tika to > extract text content (where available) from image files. > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.1.5#6160) >
