Brainstorm

OCR and BCR for N900

Posted on 2010-01-01 16:57 UTC by Pelau Vadim. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Office.

As simple as it sounds!

Optical character recognition and business card recognition for N900;

  • Why wait until you get home to digitize your documents when you can do it on the go?
  • Why bother typing the names and details of your associates when a simple photo can do all the work?

 

With N900's great camera the only problem remaining is the coding...

 

Please fel free to share your thoughts on the matter.

Official thread for Maemo5: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=469124

 

Thank you!

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Solution #1: Cuneiform

Posted on 2010-01-05 17:53 UTC by Alex Smirnoff.

It's open-source and multilingual.

What really matters besides OCR itself is business card scanning which requires some heuristics to be applied.

http://cuneiform-qt.sourceforge.net/

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Solution #2: OCRFeeder port

Posted on 2010-01-17 14:02 UTC by Quim Gil.


I kindly ask people to open their eyes before voting as this is an already working solution with a GUI.

The one above is not.

See OCRFeeder running in Fremantle working with multiple recognition engines like Tesseract and Ocrad.

 

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