On 7/2/08, Golam Mortuza Hossain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > This guy seems to be doing some interesting progress for a Bangla OCR > > - or more precisely, enabling Bangla in Tesseract. > > http://debayanin.googlepages.com/hackingtesseract
Cool. I had some interaction with the tesseract/ocropus folks, and it sounded like a good base. It's nice that someone's actually doing something with it. It takes the old "matra removal" approach, and he's facing the same problems I did (notice in his first example that গ is segmented into 2 parts, and শু is not). On the other hand, having something that works even partly is a good start. > Yes, it looks definitely interesting. > > > Looks like he needs some more training data - can we provide him with some > ? > > If I remember correctly, there was a sample file for testing completeness > of Bengali fonts. Since it has all letters and conjuncts typed-in, the > file might > be useful for training Tesseract as well . > > Deepayan should be able to give some input here. He has working experience > with R and may have some training sample as well. Well, we have a bunch of unicode documents. For some of them, I have print versions too, and can scan them if needed. A simpler approach would be to render them using different fonts and take screenshots. Apparently he also needs some box-files, whatever they are, which need to be produced using tesseract. I haven't installed tesseract yet, and will try, but let me know if anyone else manages. -Deepayan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
