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From: Craig on 30 Jun 2010 21:45
F/OSS & Cross-platform... Anyone have any experience w/this one?

> Cuneiform is a commercial grade optical character recognition (OCR)
> system. It was originally developed and open sourced by Cognitive
> technologies, and was originally Windows-only. This project aims to
> port Cuneiform to run natively on Linux.

<https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux>


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From: Don Kirkman on 1 Jul 2010 14:43
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:45:28 -0700, Craig <netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com>
wrote:


My questions are indirectly related to this announcement.

>F/OSS & Cross-platform... Anyone have any experience w/this one?

>> Cuneiform is a commercial grade optical character recognition (OCR)
>> system. It was originally developed and open sourced by Cognitive
>> technologies, and was originally Windows-only. This project aims to
>> port Cuneiform to run natively on Linux.

><https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux>

I'm still in Windows (7); I downloaded the Windows version, installed
it, and opened it. It looks very promising, but unfortunately when I
brought up an image and asked for a rendering I got an error message
that I needed to install MS Word. It seems counterproductive to buy a
$$ MS program so I can use a free OCR program*.

* I recognize that the first versions were commercial, so that kind
of limitation was understandable.

1> Is anyone familiar with the MS version of Cuneiform that can
comment on this, hopefully with wordarounds?

2. How does the *nix version get around this limitation? Any clues
there for Windows users?

TIA
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From: MN on 2 Jul 2010 08:13
On 7/2/2010 12:13 AM, Don Kirkman wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:45:28 -0700, Craig<netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> My questions are indirectly related to this announcement.
>
>> F/OSS& Cross-platform... Anyone have any experience w/this one?
>
>>> Cuneiform is a commercial grade optical character recognition (OCR)
>>> system. It was originally developed and open sourced by Cognitive
>>> technologies, and was originally Windows-only. This project aims to
>>> port Cuneiform to run natively on Linux.
>
>> <https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux>
>
> I'm still in Windows (7); I downloaded the Windows version, installed
> it, and opened it. It looks very promising, but unfortunately when I
> brought up an image and asked for a rendering I got an error message
> that I needed to install MS Word. It seems counterproductive to buy a
> $$ MS program so I can use a free OCR program*.
>
> * I recognize that the first versions were commercial, so that kind
> of limitation was understandable.
>
> 1> Is anyone familiar with the MS version of Cuneiform that can
> comment on this, hopefully with wordarounds?
>
> 2. How does the *nix version get around this limitation? Any clues
> there for Windows users?
>
> TIA

You could try TopOCR from http://www.topocr.com It comes with its own
Text Window.

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From: Don Kirkman on 2 Jul 2010 13:29
On 02 Jul 2010 00:55:09 GMT, Gunnar Gren <gg(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:

>Den 2010-07-01 skrev Don Kirkman <donsno2(a)charter.net>:
>> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:45:28 -0700, Craig <netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com>
>> wrote:

[Re: cuneiform]

>> 2. How does the *nix version get around this limitation? Any clues
>> there for Windows users?

>I tried it last year, and it worked kind of ok.
>cuneiform -l eng -o textfile picturefile

>-l = language -o = outputfile

I don't really want to go to the trouble of using a command line in a
Windows program.

>The output became this from this input file
>ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE/cover_black.pnm

I don't understand this statement, but oddly, this link insisted on
opening a private *financial* file on my own system, not a Web page.
????
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