Forwarded to this list for RFC. The idea was liked by folks on gnome-soc-list, but they asked me to check with the evince team. While one of Etienne and Joaquim would probably agree to be my mentor, it would be good to have some support from evince as well.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mukund Raghothaman <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM Subject: Possible GSoC project idea To: [email protected] Hi, I'm a student aiming to be one of the lucky few selected by GNOME under SoC this summer. I've browsed through http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas, but wish to work on an idea of my own. I wish to develop GNOME's support for OCR - I commonly read scanned documents in evince, and find it a pain to search for text without Ctrl-F. I would develop a common OCR framework, which together with plugins for specific applications like evince, eog and GNOME Scan, would provide a common OCR interface, much like the current print window, or the scan window provided by GNOME Scan. Underneath the hood, there would be a pluggable interface that worked with multiple OCR libraries like Tesseract and Ocropus. As Etienne put it, I'd probably want to make an API out of what OCRFeeder does, and allow different applications to use that API. At a more ambitious level, I want to provide handwriting recognition support also - a GTK widget that would allow handwriting recognition, and a similar tool for offline handwriting recognition also. This would be similar to the tools provided in Windows, and would be of major help to those using tablet PCs. If this were done, I see people using Xournal and OpenOffice.org with the same enthusiasm as Office OneNote. Again, as Etienne says, handwriting is along a different track, and it would probably work well as a post-SoC project. But still, my project idea is along a standard document-recognition interface in GNOME. I've already contacted Etienne, from GNOME Scan, and Joaquim Rocha, from OCR Feeder. They asked me to present this idea on this list, to see what everybody had to say. Up up? or Down down? Thanks, Mukund _______________________________________________ Evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
