> > > I'm hoping to use OCRopus for a seminar class I'm leading next quarter > on OCR.
Great! We are also going to be offering a course here next term (April). > 1) First, just looking for some feedback, do you think this is a good > idea? I.e., is OCRopus in good enough shape to study and use as a > basis for programming assignments? Yes. You should be using 0.4, which is coming out soon, since we have been doing a lot of refactoring and cleanups, which should make the code much easier to work with. The biggest changes in 0.4 are: * It contains a complete, self-contained line recognizer, whereas 0.3 relied on Tesseract (you can still use Tesseract). * The training pipeline is all there now, including book-level retraining. * There is a better set of command line tools. These also support replacing parts of the recognition pipeline with other command line tools (e.g., written in Numerical Python). * There is a better set of debugging and visualization tools. * There's some significant new functionality (e.g. page rotation detection) * There are fewer required external dependencies. > 2) Is scons going to be the standard build method, or will you > continue to focus on automake/autoconf? In the version checked out > from subversion, scons claims to be unsupported, and says that > automake/autoconf is the main build method. Both scons and autoconf/automake will continue to be part of the system. We use scons for internal development. The sense in which scons is "unsupported" is that we're not going to try to make it portable; it does whatever we need it to do on our development systems (which are basically up-to-date Ubuntu systems). > 3) For the tutorial material on ocrocourse.iupr.com, I can see the > material quite fine, but not a way to have it appear as a slide show, > as is shown in the tutorial video from DAS2008. Is there a way to do > that with the online version? I wrote a short Python script to convert the HTML; I'll have to see whether I can dig it up. Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
