Bug 135253

Summary:	add support for Tesseract-OCR
Product:	[Applications] kooka	Reporter:	Marc Collin <marc.collin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Klaas Freitag <freitag>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	esigra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.44
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Marc Collin 2006-10-07 16:03:21 UTC

Version:           0.44 (using KDE 3.5.4 "release 88.1" , openSUSE )
Compiler:          Target: x86_64-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.18-5-default

hp free in opensource a very good ocr

Tesseract OCR

that could be very nice if kooka support it

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr/

Comment 1 ralf@skolelinux.de 2008-02-19 20:46:49 UTC

I agree, tesseract-ocr is now a debian package. 
It is the engine for Google's ocropus project.

try: apt-get install tesseract-ocr
tesseract-ocr --help

call: tesseract inputfilename outputfilename

Comment 2 Mike Anderton 2008-02-24 07:17:29 UTC

i came here to file this wish as well.. we definitely need Tesseract OCR. It was developed by HP and google later picked it up.

Comment 3 Viesturs Zarins 2008-02-24 14:54:52 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 4 Mike Anderton 2008-03-03 06:10:41 UTC

Ocropus is a document analysis and OCR program that uses Tesseract as a block-wise recognizer.

http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/

seeing as kooka does not do document analysis, kooka should piggyback on ocropus and let that gets the characters with tesseract