Brainstorm http://maemo.org/community/brainstor.../ocr_for_n900/

Update 07-April-2008:
Attached the debian package below.

After installation run it through, MaemoPad in Extras menus
Changes made(compared to the binary)
Word wrap
Support for texts with more than 2K characters. Still limited , upto only 10K

Update 06-April-2008:
I have integrated the GNU OCR engine with maemopad. A menu item (to open PNM) and menu tab item (to do the same has been added). As you can see in the screen shots these open PNM(image) files. I am working on adding support to most image formats(jpeg,tiff, png, bmp etc etc) I have the Netpbm library compiled but somehow the other fileformat are not working. For now I can only provide the source code and binary. I will try to pack it into deb once I get sometime to figure it out. For now it seems to work fine. You can read upto 2048 characters. But this can be changed easily in the later releases.

Screenshots
Menu Option


Source Image (Chapter 1, The Manifesto)


OCR Result


As you can see, more work to be done on work wrapping, aligning paragraphs, new line etc. Its about 3 times slower when compared to a Pentium 4 1.8GHz, 512MB , fedora 8 system. Just used the basic "time" command.

Package( binary, source, test images)
http://rapidshare.com/files/105337245/mocr.tar.gz.html

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Hi,
I have successfully ported GNU OCR
http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

Here are the source files
http://rapidshare.com/files/10519004...mo.tar.gz.html

and a sample pnm to test it
http://rapidshare.com/files/105190569/ocr-b.pnm.html

and the binary for os2008 for n800,
http://rapidshare.com/files/105190878/gocr.html


And the results!

Test Image: ocr-b.pnm



Nokia-N800-51-3:~# ./gocr ocr-b.pnm
nBcDEFGHIJKLmNoRsTuvwxyznöü
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzäöüß
1234S6789O !''%&/()≡?\(}[I+*#'
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