Free OCR. It's possible

Posted by LolerCoaster on Sunday March 22, 2015 @10:19AM
from the my-ocr.com dept.

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Re:Free OCR. It's possible by _rolf on Monday March 23, 2015 @08:09AM (#9250445)

Reporting very poor performance on what seemed like a basic challenge: http://i.imgur.com/Q8pFCtE.png

Came out as rmm 1.247 mm 111.513 am: 9.99: 3959 4.349 at was Luna L000 9.; n.nnn n.nnn n.nnn Rmavgorh xv: v Rnlalrms u.nnn n.nnn n.nnn M m....;r..=:.....

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Re:Free OCR. It's possible by LolerCoaster on Monday March 23, 2015 @08:51AM (#9250565)

The image you provided us with is not exactly the best one. Contrast on this image is low and it's a small image. The larger, the better.

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Re:Free OCR. It's possible by jonex on Sunday March 22, 2015 @03:33PM (#9247929)

What backend technology does the site use, is it home-developed or using a commercial/open source engine?

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Re:Free OCR. It's possible by LolerCoaster on Sunday March 22, 2015 @04:27PM (#9248091)

It's an open source engine called Tesseract.

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Re:Free OCR. It's possible by tmikaeld on Sunday March 22, 2015 @11:47AM (#9247143)

I can't connect to the site?

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