Oops, posted to the wrong list. Sorry.
Stuart Sierra wrote: > 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
