I take the liberty of top posting since i copied the mail's contents from archives and bottom posting will require messing with the text below to much. In reply to this particular line: " 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)."
Kindly see http://picasaweb.google.com/debayanin/TesseractIndicOCR#5325782929614608690. Below is the original conversation. 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 -- Be Intelligent, Use GNU/Linux http://debayanin.googlepages.com/ http://debayan.wordpress.com http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
