That's a great idea -- I don't have spare time for new projects at the moment, but I wonder if something like OpenOCR might be useful as a starting point for an effort like this: https://github.com/tleyden/open-ocr
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 4:03:52 PM UTC-4, Rich Jones wrote: > > Hello, all! > > I'm currently talking with a group of MuckRock users about automatically > OCR'ing a very large set (tens of millions) of CIA documents. > > It looks like this will take many months to scan on a single machine, but > I think it could happen in far less time if done in parallel on AWS Lambda > (or similar) or on an elastic cluster. > > It will take a little bit of work to design and build this architecture > (two architectures, in fact, one optimized for speed and one optimized for > cost), so I think it would be nice if we could build out this system in a > way that would benefit the larger community. Therefore, I'd like to float > the proposal that we start a new Free and Open Source software project for > tools, templates and guides to build queue-based elastic and server-less > Tesseract systems which are capable of quickly and affordably scanning > millions of documents in the cloud. > > Would anybody on this list be interested in working on something like this? > > Even more specifically - since Google is maintaining ownership of the > Tesseract project, and Google also owns the Google Cloud Platform, would > Google be willing to devote some resources into sponsoring the creation of > this project, if it could be designed to run on the Google Cloud (GCE/GCF) > and using Google technologies (k8s)? If not, does anybody know of any other > organizations which would be interested in throwing some resources at this? > > It's just an idea, but it's something that I'd like to work on if the > resources are available that I think would have a very large impact for a > number of different communities. > > Thanks for your consideration and feedback, > Rich Jones > https://github.com/Miserlou > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/fa15e8ac-5570-4537-9511-1abb3375d4b2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
