Does ABBYY have an API? Might need to write a python wrapper for it..?
Cheers L. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Roberto Rosario < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > At the moment the code is dependent on Tesseract, it was the only free OCR > engine I had access to at the time, but this is an item on the TO DO list ( > https://docs.google.com/document/d/19F5fUjAvsAHXLcPWOGnIpYtWAHQ_CwWLNi6jv8oeQCc/edit) > for this development cycle. > > > * > > - Abstract usage of Tesseract OCR > - To allow switching of the OCR engine in the future > > * > > > --Roberto > > > On Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:17:55 PM UTC-4, simon thompson wrote: >> >> the OCR element does not seem to work that well for my documents, does >> mayan support using 3rd party OCR software such as ABBYY ? >> >> Thanks >> Simon >> >> > -- > > > > -- ...we look at the present day through a rear-view mirror. This is something Marshall McLuhan said back in the Sixties, when the world was in the grip of authentic-seeming future narratives. He said, “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314 --
