Hello, > I built OCRopus for Mac OSX 10.5.6, and wanted to share the results, > since some people seem to have had problems getting it to build. I > also compiled ImageMagick and Ghostscript so that it'll handle more > image formats. >
Thanks for the great work. > The final result is TakOCR.app, a Mac 'dropplet' application that you > can drop images and PDFs onto and they'll be OCRed, and the hOCR > output displayed. My dad needed an OCR solution and isn't really a > command line kind of guy. > > Here's the webpage: > http://stuporglue.org/tako/ > > And the download directory: > http://stuporglue.org/tako/downloads/v1/ > * OCRopus_Full.tgz -- Tesseract, OCRopus, Imagemagick, Ghostscript -- > unpack it to / and it'll expand into /usr/local/ > * TakOCR.pkg -- Installer package for Mac OSX. Installs binaries and > TakOCR.app. > The Installer doesn't let me chose the desired location. > * TakOCR_uninstaller.command -- Bash script that uninstalls > everything TakOCR.pkg installs > * build_ocr.sh -- Script to download and build IM, GS, Tesseract, > OCRopus and needed libs on OSX. Makes needed changes to Makefile > before compiling. > There is an small error in this file: In line 105 the script tries to untar ocropus-0.3.1.tar.gz, which isn't downloaded before (and not even needed). > * takocr.rb -- Ruby script inside TakOCR.app which sets environment > variables, splits PDFs and Tiffs if needed, and then runs the images > through OCRopus. > > Feedback is welcome, thanks, > Maybe Thomas or Christian can add a link on ocropus.org? Cheers, Christian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ocropus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ocropus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
