Re: post doesn't show up

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've tried now about 5 times to post a thread on an OCR that is
> > > > opensource a Debian package and works fantastic.
> > > > But the post does not show up.
> > > > What's up?
> > > >
> > > > Hugo
> > > Hi Hugo,
> > > This message showed up. Did you send this last one from the same 
> > > account as
> > > the others?
> > > Anyway I'd love to hear about the opensource OCR and I'm sure many 
> > > others
> > > would as well. Can you give us the details?
> >
> > The OCR is tesseract-ocr. These steps:
> >
> > 1. apt-get install tesseract-ocr
> > 2. apt-get install tesseract-eng
> > 3. use xsane to scan a page at 300 dpi and save as .tif
> > 4. but that will be depth 16 which tesseract can't handle so reduce 
> > the depth: convert foo.tif -depth 8 foo.x1.tif
> > 5. run tesseract: tesseract foo.x1.tif foo -l eng
> > 6. text will show up as foo.txt.
> >
> > Works faultlessly with me: I have problems with single quotes and 
> > dashes but he recognizes all words perfectly.
> >
> > I have samples too, but let's see if this can be posted.
>
> That went OK. Let me post the samples.
> This is the page I scanned with xsane:
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/9267859/p13x1
>
> And this is the result:
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/9269769/p13
>
> As you can see the punctuation causes trouble, but a remarkable success 
> rate!

Well, what I just posted, I posted about 5 times yesterday and it never 
showed up.
Who knows what happened.
Tesseract: very good!
Nice Christmas present! Thanks!

It is possible to train tesseract too, which I have not tried yet.

Hugo