Re: [Bug-ocrad] Library version of OCRAD

[Igor Filippov]

Antonio,


> This same function with the name "byte_result" is included in ocrad at 
> your request since version 0.18-pre3 (2008-08-21).
Ah, great!


> As a first step, I have made ocrad recognize such characters.
Hmmm, is the functionality different now? Could you give an example?


> Now I am wondering about the bitmap/pixmap format to use for 
> communication with ocrad. Image format conversion wastes a lot of time, 
> and osra seems to do already a lot of conversions.
I still have to grab a portion of the image and extract the character shape out 
of it 
- it doesn't seem to matter if I'm putting the result in Blob or
Ocrad_Bitmap, what is the advantage of Ocrad_Bitmap?
I also still plan to keep gocr in the loop, so I'm not sure how the
current procedure could be made more efficient than it already is. If
I'm missing something here please give an example!

A dream feature request - what would be absolutely fantastic is the
ability to detect characters which are touching a line (a chemical bond
for example).
I have a few sample images and none of the open source OCR software is
able to deal with such characters. It is a very hard problem though.

Regards,
Igor