ocr'ed version of "The implementation of functional languages"
I have just embarked on creating a ocr'ed version of the jpeg images that have been made available for "The implementation of functional languages". However, my ocr software is clunky at best and (not surprisingly) it is slow going. It struch me that someone else might also be hard at work doing this and that there is not point duplicating work. Is anyone else doing this? If so, how can I help? Matt
On 9005 day of my life Matthew Roberts wrote:
I have just embarked on creating a ocr'ed version of the jpeg images that have been made available for "The implementation of functional languages".
I have high-resolution scans of this books. If Simon permits, I will create OCR from these scans. But I think, we must obtain author's permission before OCR'ing. PNG version of scans will be released soon. While size of page is same, quality is much better, probably it will improve speed of scanning. And compact DjVu version will be released too. Perhaps I could use OCR'ed text for creating searchable version of DjVu?
However, my ocr software is clunky at best and (not surprisingly) it is slow going.
What kind of software do you use? -- Ivan Boldyrev Assembly of a Japanese bicycle requires greatest peace of spirit.
On Monday, January 31, 2005, at 05:48 PM, Ivan Boldyrev wrote:
On 9005 day of my life Matthew Roberts wrote:
I have just embarked on creating a ocr'ed version of the jpeg images that have been made available for "The implementation of functional languages".
I have high-resolution scans of this books. If Simon permits, I will create OCR from these scans. But I think, we must obtain author's permission before OCR'ing.
I agree, It was going to be my first port of call once I had decided to go ahead.
What kind of software do you use?
I have OmniPage SE, that came with my scanner. I have a mac and have to use the macos9 version (no osx native version). It works quite well, but it is incapable of exporting with graphics properly, meaning I have to move all the graphics to their correct positions after I have exported. I have the windows version (and a windows pc in the spare room), but it is incapable of opening the omnipage documents I save from my mac. I can't ocr directly on windows because it complains about the resolutions of the jpegs (for no good reason). I think this OmniPage SE is just a bit "half-baked". In working with someone on this, I think the best idea is to allocate sections of the book that each person will work on and then use some sensible format (.doc, or can .rtf do images?) for the resulting document making the re-assembly of all the sections simple. Thanks, Matt
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