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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mukund Raghothaman <muxdevi...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:46 AM Subject: Fwd: Possible GSoC project idea To: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org O people of GNOME A11y, I come in peace to sell my wares! jjmarin, on #evince suggested that you might also be in need of something like this. Something to describe the text contained in images. What does everyone think? I haven't had much experience with a11y projects before, so please excuse my ignorance of your ways. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mukund Raghothaman <muxdevi...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM Subject: Possible GSoC project idea To: gnome-soc-l...@gnome.org Hi, I'm a student aiming to be one of the lucky few selected by GNOME under SoC this summer. I've browsed through http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas, but wish to work on an idea of my own. I wish to develop GNOME's support for OCR - I commonly read scanned documents in evince, and find it a pain to search for text without Ctrl-F. I would develop a common OCR framework, which together with plugins for specific applications like evince and GNOME Scan, would provide a common OCR interface, much like the current print window, or the scan window provided by GNOME Scan. Underneath the hood, there would be a pluggable interface that worked with multiple OCR libraries like Tesseract and Ocropus. As Etienne put it, I'd probably want to make an API out of what OCRFeeder does, and allow different applications to use that API. At a more ambitious level, I want to provide handwriting recognition support also - a GTK widget that would allow handwriting recognition, and a similar tool for offline handwriting recognition also. This would be similar to the tools provided in Windows, and would be of major help to those using tablet PCs. If this were done, I see people using Xournal and OpenOffice.org with the same enthusiasm as Office OneNote. Again, as Etienne says, handwriting is along a different track, and it would probably work well as a post-SoC project. But still, my project idea is along a standard document-recognition interface in GNOME. I've already contacted Etienne, from GNOME Scan, and Joaquim Rocha, from OCR Feeder. They asked me to present this idea on this list, to see what everybody had to say. Up up? or Down down? Thanks, Mukund _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
