Re: Siragi project

["Tarik Fdil" <tfdil at sagma dot ma>]

Hi,

Thanks to Nadim for suggestions. Thanks to all people interested in SIRAGI 
project.

An explication of my "inner silence". At this moment I'm involved in an 
important business project in Moroco. In a few months, all morrocan banks 
should transmit image checks instead of the paper. The delay of payment will 
be always 2 days instead of 2 to 30 days in the worse case. The monetary 
authority sets next september/october as a deadline to migrate to the new 
system. In my company, our customer is the biggest commercial bank in 
Morocco. My work is to lead a team of developpers, users and other 
stakeholders to make our client/bank meet the next deadline in the best 
conditions. I worked on this project since last april and will continue till 
next december.

Why I'm talking about all that ? Just to tell my friends intersted in OCR 
project : please be patient. I'm busy but the project is not dead. There is 
some work done in segmentation. We should now make a classification program 
(using NN or other mean) and join the two sides and see what is the output. 
If we have a 40% or 50% of good recongnition, it will be a good beggining 
;-) Commercial products for *latin* characters recognize 99% of characters 
in a text. But this is not an issue for us.

There is a design of the project here http://siragi.sourceforge.net/design/ 
and some doc and source code in CVS 
http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/siragi/. If you are interested 
either in encapsulating existing source code or in writing a new code, just 
drop us a line in this mailing list to tell us which class/method are you 
going to write and what's the method's prototype. It's important to 
communicate your method/function definition (prototype not implementation) 
to be sure that all pieces of program could be linked correctly. And it's 
important to communicate via this ML to avoid double work.

There is also a work to be done prior to train a NN : produce a set of 
arabic characters as a bitmap shapes.

Let's recap  what could be done to contribute in SRAGI project :

- complete and correct the design of project
- encapsulate in classes some existing function according to the design
- create new methods/classes based on existing design
- create a simple/good GUI (and design it before)
- produce a set of bitmap arabic characters to be used in NN
- produce a NN using SNNS
- etc.

Again thanks to all developers and sorry for this long "silence radio" !

Regards
Tarik
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nadim Shaikli" <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
To: "Development Discussions" <developer at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Siragi project


> --- Tarik Fdil <tfdil at sagma dot ma> wrote:
> >
> [snip snip]
> > I'm the project leader. Lassad JAZIRI and Ahmad SAYED are involved
> > in the developement too.
> >
> > Anyway, welcome Khayri to the Siragi project :-)
>
> Tarik, a couple of minor suggestions/inquiries.
>
> Do please update the project page [1] post logging into the Arabeyes 
> website
> to add whatever relevant blurbs you see fit (note that those blurbs will 
> be
> reflected on our homepage so keep 'em short and sweet akin to what is done
> on other sub-projects).  I would also highly recommend you add the various
> people working with you to the Siragi project's page as contributors (I 
> just
> added Ahmad Sayed) which requires said people to have registered with
> Arabeyes [2] (this will also ease their process to get CVS accounts once
> you OK them).  The addition of contributors is also done via the website -
> if you have any issues/questions regarding the mechanics of what needs to
> be done email me.
>
> Lastly and this is a mere humble suggestion so don't read anything into 
> it,
> there seems to be a genuine interest in this OCR project which is 
> wonderful
> yet I don't see everyone actually being productive in that everyone seems 
> to
> be getting familiar with things for the longest time as such it might be
> useful to assign people tasks and schedules to motivate them into action.
>
> Salam and keep up the great effort - I'm looking forward to testing Siragi
> once its user-ready.
>
> [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Siragi
> [2] http://www.arabeyes.org/join.php
>
> - Nadim
>
>
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