Hey Folks, I am coming from a few different areas * Geogeek involved with FOSS for geomatics * Ubuntu user and long time Linux convert * heavy user of FOSS tools * python scripting (always learning) * willing to bash the CLI but love it when a project matures to a simple GUI * Willing advocate of mature FOSS projects that can solve real world solutions for the masses * Owner of a couple of SVN repos (mostly python stuff) * general hacker to make a tool do what I want * A willing beta tester and bug reporter (tend to play this role a lot at work). This is not what I consider pleasurable though.
Where I am coming from in relation to this project. I keep a lot of hand written notes. I collect lots of receipts and try to type them in, but never get around to it. Sound familiar? I want to merge my analogue world with the digital by scanning my notes so I can have digital to-do lists. I want to scan my receipts to track consumption of goods. I want to scan my bills so I can extract data such as cell phone usage and most called numbers. And of course mapping everything out. I am interested in building a user friendly GUi using Python and some GUI lib like GT, TkTcl, GTK, etc. I am also interested in geolocating scanned materials by looking for location keywords. Right now I have a stack of business cards. I want to scan them, extract the data and populate an address book. I am also interested in extracting geo-related data from scanned materials like addresses, cities, countries etc. So the first step was to find a library. I tried out a few like: * Tesseract * GOCR * OCRAD This test confirmed my suspicions that there is large gap in maturity between projects (http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/ocr-test/). Opus uses Tesseract and adds layout, which I like. I am also interested in learning how to build packages for Ubuntu. I am working on a few others> Once I get the hang I would like to help out where I can if this project helps me get closer to my goal. What I am not: * A trained programmer * An image specialist (although have worked a lot with satellite imagery in the geo world and am an amateur digi-photographer) * A Heavy code producer So, does this sound like an OK match with the project? -- 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.
