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I wonder how hard it would be to run a couple pages of dense print (though in a monospaced and consistent format) through an OCR system. I might play with Tess
by Karunamon 9y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to run a couple pages of dense print (though in a monospaced and consistent format) through an OCR system.
I might play with Tesseract[1] this weekend and see if this is even a feasible idea. If so, it makes the paper key storage a lot more palatable.
[1]:https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- philsnow 9y agothere are fonts that were designed specifically to be easily OCRed with high reliability. look for "OCR A".
- avian 9y agoOn several separate occasions I tried to use Tesseract to OCR base64 and similar text that was printed in a normal monospace font (i.e. not a special OCR font) and scanned. I never got even close to getting useful results. I tried limiting the alphabet, disabling language models as far as I could and at most I could get a few recognizable character sequences right out of the whole page. I got the impression that the whole thing very much depends on being able to split text into English words and have easily separated paragraphs.
- Karunamon 9y agoWell, crap. Looks like QR codes are the better idea, then. Thanks for saving me a boatload of time!