Hedos wrote: > Hi folks, I have an idea for the Summer of Code, I would like to know > what you think about it and see if any possible mentor might be > interested. > > This is by no mean a formal proposal at the moment. > > ** Project title ** > Optical Characters Recognition With Learning Capabilities > or > Human Trainable CAPTCHA Solver
Solving CAPTCHAs is an interesting test of OCR capabilities, but I for one would be far more interested in a *useful* open-source OCR application (better than JOCR) that can learn to recognize different fonts and layouts, ignore images, and work with poor-quality photocopies. Of course, an OCR that can solve a tricky CAPTCHA might be pretty good at general-purpose OCR as well. But working with full-length documents might allow it to make guesses based on the content of the text as well as the image. -Stuart _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
