Looks that downloadable traineddata files are doing a good job for printed
text. It would be great to provide the function for recognizing personal
handwriting, but I am leaving this to the future. For now I am focusing on
incorporating OCR of printed text into Fopydo.

Tomek

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:02 PM, sreekanth reddy <[email protected]>wrote:

> Congrats!
>
> Don't forget to train it,
> and check ocropus project it may be useful to your fopydo.
>
> Best Regards
> sreekanth reddy bandi
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Tomek Wardega <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I will reply to my own question :)
>>
>> The build for Mac was very easy and went smooth on my build machine (Mac
>> OS X 10.6). Pretty much:
>> ./configure
>> make
>> sudo make install
>>
>> For my particular use I had to use otool and install_name_tool to create a
>> relocateable tesseract application that can be distributed with my program.
>> If there is interest in how to it - I will post the commands.
>>
>> So far I am very impressed with tesseract and hope to have a version of
>> fopydo with tesseract in a few weeks.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tomek Wardega
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Tomek Wardega 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to add tesseract to the image scanning program that I am
>>> working on (Fopydo - it is short for photocopy documents, fopydo.com).
>>> I maintain my code for Windows and Mac OS and I have plans to create a
>>> Linux port. Could you please let me know if there is a standard Mac OS
>>> 10.6 build or whether I need to build tesseract for Mac myself. If the
>>> latter is the case - is there any documentation regarding Mac OS
>>> builds? Thanks in advance...
>>>
>>> Tomek Wardega
>>>
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