:D Pyschotic I may be, but Atwood's law compels me to do it! I'm committed to getting it working in the client, I don't want these fancy pants node bindings - they're cheating if you ask me!
I'll report back if/when I have made some headway with this. I've been put in touch with one of the emscripten guys by Brendan Eich (!!) so maybe the ball will get rolling :) On Monday, 16 September 2013 20:04:51 UTC+1, sventech wrote: > > Here is a tesseract interface via NodeJS: > https://github.com/desmondmorris/node-tesseract > > But I think you're a psycho! :-) > Running OCR in a browser would be excessively resource intensive at > present. Perhaps send the blob to your server (making sure to limit its > size) and send back an asynchronous JSON text reply? There are some OCR > server systems. > > Google Docs API is an option: > http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-docs-ocr.html > > Just some thoughts. Many of us would like to hear what you can come up > with. > --Sven > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Nick Williams > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've had an idea for a while about utilising getUserMedia/file input in a >> browser to capture a picture of text, and then use OCR to get the text. It >> seems there are no readily available JS OCR libs, so I've started thinking >> about using emscripten to compile tesseract to JS. >> >> I'd just like to know is this viable? Modern browsers can create binary >> blobs, so I assume this would be possible, providing the tesseract API >> supports it? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Nick >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en >> >> --- >> 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 [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > ``All that is gold does not glitter, > not all those who wander are lost; > the old that is strong does not wither, > deep roots are not reached by the frost. > From the ashes a fire shall be woken, > a light from the shadows shall spring; > renewed shall be blade that was broken, > the crownless again shall be king.” > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" 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/tesseract-ocr?hl=en --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
