Re: AOCR for open source

["Afief Halumi" <afief dot h at gmail dot com>]

Open source != C

You could arguably release it with the matlab dependency(and some documentation what exactly the matlab parts do) and let the OSS crowd help out on some of them.

The interface should not be an issue as most OCR engines only need to be able to run from command line, but it can be added later, perhaps even with an entirely different language(some people here love python for jobs like this)

One last note: there are a few open source matlab replacements out there, I don't know how compatible they are, but it might be worth to check them out...

Hope I helped,
Afief Halumi

On 9/26/07, Mahmoud Abdel moneim Elgenedy <melgenedy at gmail dot com> wrote:

Assalamo 3likom all,

 

my name mahmoud abdel moneim, i want to take your openions for putting the following project (Arabic OCR based HTK) for open source:

 

- we did an Arabic OCR as a graduate project, it was based on an open-source tool kit (named HTK), also we reached a very good results on the

 

printed text fonts (reached above 97%) and can be increased using fusion and some adaptation.

 

- now the problem that i want take your openion about is that :

 

we did some codes using matlab (it is not the core) it is only for the preprocessing and GUI, and it needs some efforts to do it on C to be suitable for open source.

 

Thanks, Mahmoud

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