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    Optical Character Recognition GOCR, what can it do for you? converting images with printed text to text format making printed text accessible for text utils. Font independent, no training, executable only autodetection (can be switched off) portability, flexibility (OS, c, pnm, text only)

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    Optical Character Recognition GOCR, what can it do for you? converting images with printed text to text format making printed text accessible for text utils. Font independent, no training, executable only autodetection (can be switched off) portability, flexibility (OS, c, pnm, text only)

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    Optical Character Recognition GOCR, what can it do for you? converting images with printed text to text format making printed text accessible for text utils. Font independent, no training, executable only autodetection (can be switched off) portability, flexibility (OS, c, pnm, text only)

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    OpticalCharacterRecognition

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    GOCR,whatcanitdoforyou?
    convertingimageswithprintedtexttotextformat makingprintedtextaccessiblefortextutils sources:scans,screenshots,photos?,pdf's,edocs destination:ASCII/UTFtext,HTML/XML,TeX

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    GOCR,thegoal...

    justtakeitanduseit

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Features?

    portability,flexibility(OS,c,pnm,textonly) fontindependent,notraining,executableonly autodetection(canbeswitchedoff) barcodes

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Restrictions(v0.40)?
    onlycleanblackonwhite(highres,nodustetc.) nonrotated,simplelayouts,(printed)textonly onlylatinfontwithsomeextensions(de,fr,se) only1Dbarcodes slow,...

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Alternatives?

    requiremouseandX ClaraOCR,OCRchie experimental OCRE(roughFFT) locr(fast,simpledatabase)

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Howtomeasurequality?
    Qualityofrecognition?(speed,resources?) Recognitionrateinpercent?99%..99.999%? Dependsstronglyfromthepattern.Standards? Don'tcare? Popularity?(press,downloads,feedback)

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Greatestsuccess?

    FirstimplementationofRFC1149,April2001 IPoveraviancarrier(BergenLinuxUserGroup) carrierpigeoninternetprotocol(CPIP)

    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Postduif.jpg

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    2 greatestsuccess?

    nd

    asprise.com'sOCRJavaSDK2.1,April2005

    sellingitfor$998..$2,998(butGPLviolation) advertiseshisprogramasveryaccuratewithoutbeeing afraidofmalcontendbuyers Webexcerpt:

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Codehistory?
    v0.1autumn1998 v0.2.1Mar2000@freshmeat May20001000downloads v0.2.5Jun2000@SF 2001(SuSE7.1) v0.3.5Feb2002(SuSE8.1) 18000codelines(v0.40) Whencanwereleasev1.0?

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Emailtraffic?
    every2nddayaocrmessage 20xmoreSpam Finalstateisnoemailsbutdownloads?

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Problems?

    Copyrightandsamplesources(bigproblem) notenoughtimeforcoding

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Howdoesitwork?
    preprocessing thresholdvaluedetection boxdetection,zoning,linedetection sortingandmelting,dust,pictures,... callocrengine(3engines,2experimental) repeatedforunknownchars postprocessing(XML,TeX,UTF,ASCII)

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Howdoesitwork?

    preprocessing thresholdvaluedetection boxdetection,zoning,linedetection sortingandmelting,dust,pictures,...

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Whyisitnotworking?
    noidea...P) verysimplealgorithmswrittenbyanOCR amateur,makingtheprogramusableataearly stateofcoding mostcodewrittenaroundmidnight? itsalphacodeandwillbebetter(v0.xx)

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Lookinginside...
    assumenocolors,blackonwhiteonly assumenorotation,samefont,allcharactersare separated trytorepairifassumptionsarehurt(canfail) everycharisrecognizedempiricallybasedonits pixelpattern lotofpossibilitiestoimproveGOCR

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Lookinginside...

    everycharisrecognizedempiricallybasedonits notflat pixelpattern nogapassumed

    As_MPLf

    lengthnot compared

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Usefulforaccessibility?
    OCRisimportantforvisibleimpairedpeople Linuxischeapandflexible butgoodandflexibleOCRismissing GOCRwilltrytoservethatneeds(feedback?)

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Challenges?
    www.seeingwithsound.com/ocr.htm screenshots(smallfontsandgraphicmixed) signpostsonphotos(webcamshots)

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Challenges?
    ... carplates?

    Photo:A.Karwath,commons.wikimedia.org

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    nextstepscolors

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    nextstepshandwritten

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    nextstepsrotatedtext

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Timeline?
    improverecognition(stepwise,ondemand) multicolorforscreenshotsAug05 extracttextfromphotosOct05 2Dbarcodes(usefull?)Dez05 vectorizationandrotationMai06 suggestions?

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

    Howcanyouhelp?
    createcopyrightfreesamplesfortypical problems(easy) write/findOCRrelatedfreeavailablepublications writepatches(difficult) writeanew+betterOCRengine(mostdifficult)

    JoergSchulenburg,LinuxTag2005GOCR

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