Re: start of SIRAGI project

[Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad at khalifa dot ws>]

Tarik FDIL wrote:
> Salam,
> I'm very pleased to announce the official start of SIRAGI-OCR project.
> We aim to read images files (tif, jpeg, bmp, etc.) of arabic text and produce 
> arabic text corresponding. It will be very usefull to avoid retyping books 
> and printed texts. It is *very*  important for blind people to read paper 
> printed text just by scanning them and applying OCR. Otherwise they should 
> ask some one to read text for them :-(

Congratulations to you too :)

> So, if you are a C/C++ programmer and you like manipulating image formats and 
> you are fall in love with these small artificial beings called neural 
> networks :-),  then welcome to SIRAGI project ! 
> http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=siragi
>
> We are in the very beginning of the project so you can participate in 
> designing it and discussing the best way to address arabic OCR problem.

Count me in, I'd really like to help with this :)

> Thanks to Nadim for his valuable helps outside the mailing lists.

As always :)


ak.