Hi José, On Tuesday 06 March 2012 14:16:34 Klaas Freitag wrote: > On 06.03.2012 14:00, José Manuel Santamaría Lema wrote: > Hey José, > > > I'm considering to apply to GSoC this year, and if I do, I would like to > > improve the status of scanning and optical character recognition in KDE; > > being more specific: > > > > > > What I want to achieve > > -------------------------------- > > ... > > So... to sum up: it was/is easier to produce good djvu documents with > > propietary software. I want a KDE'ish program to replace the expensive > > "Document Express". > > Thats a very ambitious target. > > > > So... looks like the tasks to do to achive my goal would be: > > 1. If needed, extend libksane functionality in order to make it a good > > replacement for the old libkscan. > > I think thats already finished :-) > > > 2. Port kooka to the modern libksane. > > Cool, but I think Kooka as an app needs much more than just a new > underlying lib. Graphics apps nowadays are much more cool than Kooka > ever was. So if you pick that I think you should be willing to bring > Kooka to an up to date state. However I am not so sure if there is still > a demand for that kind of app... > > > 3. Add ocropus support to kooka (I heard with ocropus you can get the > > coordinates of the texts, but I don't know for sure yet) > > 4. Code something in kooka to produce djvu documents. > > The idea back in the days was to provide a component for OCR which can > be reused in all apps which deal with images, similar to what the > ScanService is (you can find it for example in Gwenview under the Moduls > menu. I think that would be really cool and could be a great GSOC > project imo. > Yes, it would be really cool :)
I think I would prioritize like this: 1) Create a non-GUI Qt/KDE library that can take an (Q)image and generate output suitable for djvu/PDF/ODF. Maybe even generate djvu/PDF/ODF files. 2) Make a simple GUI around the library to test the functionality. 3) Add the ORC part to the KScan plugin ksaneplugin. (kdegraphics) 4) Create a Kipi-plugin for use in Gwenview,Digikam,.... 5) Standalone document scanning application that is specialized for multipage scanning to PDF/djvu/ODT. I'm not familiar with the ocropus API, so I'm not sure how much work it would be. I'm not sure one GSOC would be enough for all 5 points ;) Regards, Kåre >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
