Tom, Thanks for the great information. Do you know of any companies that offer OCR software that is capable of these things? One that I found was ABBYY, which offers a mobile ocr.
On May 4, 7:35 pm, Thomas Breuel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm very new to ocropus and ocr in general. I have an application > > where we want to capture a digital image of a part number that's on a > > tire. Might ocropus be capable of this? > > OCRopus is not designed for recognizing text in photographic images. Some > of OCRopus's algorithms may be useful for that, but it requires additional > modules for text/image segmentation, binarization, and dewarping that are > not part of OCRopus (at least not yet). My research group has developed > some other text-in-image recognizers, but they haven't been released. > > > Also, if possible I would like to run the ocr software on a mobile > > device running WinMobile for example. Does ocropus have this > > capability? > > In principle, OCRopus can be ported to mobile devices, but it is really > intended for running on desktops and servers. We're implementing some > mobile OCR, but we just send the images to the server (that's also a lot > nicer on the battery of the mobile device). > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
