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From:

 Aaron Smith <aaron@gwmicro.com>

Subject:

 Fwd: Fwd: Re: Window-Eyes and OCR

Date:

 Tue, Sep 27, 2011 4:06:46 pm
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FYI. If one were to combine the resources below, along with the screen
capturing capabilities found at
http://www.developerfusion.com/code/4630/capture-a-screen-shot/ (with
maybe a pinch of ImageMagick processing), one could have a serious
Window-Eyes OCR solution on their hands.

Aaron

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Subject: Re: Window-Eyes and OCR
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:01:40 -0400
From: Aaron Smith <aaron@gwmicro.com>
Reply-To: aaron@gwmicro.com
Organization: GW Micro, Inc.
To: Vic.Pereira@ic.gc.ca
CC: gw-info@gwmicro.com



On 9/27/2011 3:05 PM, Vic.Pereira@ic.gc.ca wrote:
> I like the idea of putting it into a script.

OCR through scripting could be done today by anyone with some knowledge
and some free time. I have one of those, but not the other. <grin> Here
are some starting points:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1762565/python-tesseract-ocr-question

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

http://mjtokelly.blogspot.com/2007/05/pytesser-ocr-for-python.html

http://www.ocrtools.com/fi/prdOCRStandard.aspx


Aaron

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FYI. If one were to combine the resources below, along with the
screen capturing capabilities found at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.developerfusion.com/code/4630/capture-a-screen-shot/">http://www.developerfusion.com/code/4630/capture-a-screen-shot/</a>;
(with maybe a pinch of ImageMagick processing), one could have a
serious Window-Eyes OCR solution on their hands.<br>
<br>
Aaron<br>
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<pre wrap="">I like the idea of putting it into a script.
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OCR through scripting could be done today by anyone with some
knowledge and some free time. I have one of those, but not the
other. &lt;grin&gt; Here are some starting points:<br>
<br>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="ProgId" content="OneNote.File">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft OneNote 14">
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1762565/python-tesseract-ocr-question">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1762565/python-tesseract-ocr-question</a></p>;
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/">http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/</a></p>;
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mjtokelly.blogspot.com/2007/05/pytesser-ocr-for-python.html">http://mjtokelly.blogspot.com/2007/05/pytesser-ocr-for-python.html</a></p>;
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11.0pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ocrtools.com/fi/prdOCRStandard.aspx">http://www.ocrtools.com/fi/prdOCRStandard.aspx</a></p>;
<br>
Aaron<br>
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Aaron Smith
Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist
GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825
260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com

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correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information
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