Possible to including OCR using open source OCR OCRopus?
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:41 am
Hi
It seems that many people use Evernote mainly because it offers OCR scanning of photos and images.
I personally have gone to great lengths to avoid using Evernote. My friends think I am irrational, but I have my reasons:
1. Because its 'cloud' based and I do not want my data 'on the cloud'
2. The internet is amazingly slow here in China where its monitored endlessly by the GreatFirewall
3. Evernote is a large corporation. Trusting personal data to a large corporation is not a good idea
4. I don't like large corporations. Small companies drive economies.
5. Its not a nice-looking app and its long roll-style method of storing data doesnt' work for me.
It would seem that adding OCR to MyInfo might be a good idea, although I guess this is no small feat at all.
The open-source OCR initiative by Google http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ might be a starting point.
I'm not sure if this is practical at all. But it sounds like a nice dream.
It seems that many people use Evernote mainly because it offers OCR scanning of photos and images.
I personally have gone to great lengths to avoid using Evernote. My friends think I am irrational, but I have my reasons:
1. Because its 'cloud' based and I do not want my data 'on the cloud'
2. The internet is amazingly slow here in China where its monitored endlessly by the GreatFirewall
3. Evernote is a large corporation. Trusting personal data to a large corporation is not a good idea
4. I don't like large corporations. Small companies drive economies.
5. Its not a nice-looking app and its long roll-style method of storing data doesnt' work for me.
It would seem that adding OCR to MyInfo might be a good idea, although I guess this is no small feat at all.
The open-source OCR initiative by Google http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ might be a starting point.
I'm not sure if this is practical at all. But it sounds like a nice dream.