new OCR project for Linux!

[Willem van der Walt]

I have tested cuneiform and here are my findings.
It is very fast compared to ocropus.
It has a slightly funny way of building, but it built quite easaly under 
Ubuntu.
Although it is suppose to be able to use any imagemagick supported image 
file when compiled with the imagemagick dev files installed, it segfaults 
on images with an 8 bit format.
I got around that by changing the bit depth using pngcp in my case.
I did a few tests and got some very good and some very bad results 
compared to ocropus.
Once the bit depth problem was sorted out, I used the test image files 
from ocropus alice_1 to alice_9.png and it ocred them without any errors.
As said before, cuneiform is fast.
I will do more testing and then might modify my ocr front-end software 
which is 
released as part of kies, to include this engine as an alternative to 
ocropus.
Kind regards, Willem

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Jason White wrote:

> Chris Brannon  <cmbrannon at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone used it?  Will it run from the command line?  
> 
> I went as far as downloading the source archive. If you can compile it, it
> will indeed run from the command line. If you have ImageMagick++ installed, it
> will convert the image files from any of the formats supported by ImageMagick,
> according to the README documentation.
> 
> I don't currently have a scanner, hence I lack a source of image files to
> convert. For this reason, and due also to my other commitments, I didn't try
> to compile Cuneiform.
> 
> Sloccount reports over 300,000 lines of C/C++ code. From a quick browse, the
> comments in the source code are in Russian, reflecting the origins of the
> software.
> 
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