On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:33:41PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:32:57PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:08:55PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote: > > > > > > >so what is the best commercial/shareware that can read a > 10pt-font > > > > > > >file? (( also, when i have time to get back into actually > hacking, > > > > > > >this [[turning imaged pdf into OCR'able ascii or 8859-1]] is > giong > > > > > > >to > > > > > > >be a first target. any idea which team i should go with. gOCR > > > > > > >looks > > > > > > >best so far to me. > > > > > > > > > > > > AABBYY Finereader - Omnipage haven't been able to catch it in > several > > > > > > years either feature or qualitywise. No idea if Finereader runs > under > > > > > > emulator though. If the file is already a PDF and 72 DPI with > text > > > as > > > > > > graphics most of the damage has already been done, and it will be > > > > > > extremely hard to OCR. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > well, damage is probably done. how can i check the > resolution? > > > > > i tried to increase it by creating huge ppm and tif files, > but > > > > > then that's really absurd since there can only be just so > much > > > > > data per image. i _could_ try xv and jpeg and smoothing > image > > > to > > > > > refine, but too much hassle. > > > > > > > > > > (i used gocr -m 130 and "saw" the glyphs it (presumably) > saw. > > > > > seemed pretty much okay to my eyes. but then i'm not a > computer > > > > > program. [MAYBE :)] > > > > > > > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Reko > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public > Service > > > > > Unix > > > > > http://jottings.thought.org > http://transfinite.thought.org > > > > > The 2.23a release of Jottings: > > > http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > At one point in time, the Abby folks were offering a back-end that > ran on > > > > FreeBSD. I tried to get the free download; but it never happened. > (They > > > > misplaced my signed, faxed license agreement and I finally got tired > of > > > the > > > > back-and-forth prerequisite communication.) > > > > > > > > Abby also no longer supports Mac OS X. I use an old version and like > it > > > a > > > > lot. > > > > > > > > > > > > > OK, now i know what to expect. I found theit site and signed > up > > > to get the linux version; trial. not likrly to go any > > > further.... > > > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > > Andrew > > > > > > -- > > > Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service > > > Unix > > > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > > The 2.23a release of Jottings: > http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > > > > > > > I'm rooting for you! :-) > > > well, i just got an email from a david hazard who said to look on > their website; i replied that i had and couldn't find their test > suite.... if/when this guy replies, i'll share. > > gary > > Start here: http://www.abbyy.com/sdk/?param=59956 I will try again, as well. Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
