Re:OCRopus: high-quality open source OCR sponsored by Google...
by henning on Sunday April 18, 2010 @01:47PM
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What exactly do you expect? Some of those old documents they're trying to digitize are in such bad shape that you practically need an electron microscope to decipher them. Document recognition in its full generality is still an open problem. The examples shown on that page constitute highly adversarial challenges. For simpler examples of the kind that would prevail with recently printed material, much better results can be achieved.
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Re:OCRopus: high-quality open source OCR sponsored by Google...
by nearestneighbor on Sunday April 18, 2010 @01:57PM
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> Some of those old documents they're trying to digitize are in such bad shape that you practically need an electron microscope to decipher them.
Red herring. I'm talking about the examples pictured.
Do you know _for a fact_ that this is the same software package?
I don't want to waste my time arguing about why it doesn't live up to my expectations, if it's not.