OCRopus - open source document analysis and OCR system (www.ocropus.org)

Version 0.2 (2008-05-30)


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Building OCRopus
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Please refer to the file INSTALL for help on building OCRopus from source.


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Executing OCRopus
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After successfully building and installing OCRopus you can use "ocroscript"
to interpret the Lua scripts.
Try e.g.
    ocroscript rec-tess data/pages/alice_1.png

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Documentation
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Please refer to http://sites.google.com/site/ocropus
for the most recent documentation of OCRopus.


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Background
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OCRopus is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring
    * pluggable layout analysis,
    * pluggable character recognition,
    * statistical natural language modeling and
    * multi-lingual capabilities.
OCRopus development is sponsored by Google and is initially intended for
high-throughput, high-volume document conversion efforts. We expect that
it will also be an excellent OCR system for many other applications.

OCRopus is mainly based on research projects of Thomas Breuel and the Image
Understanding and Pattern Recognition (IUPR) group of the German Research
Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) located in Kaiserslautern, Germany.


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Online Resources
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Homepage:
    http://www.ocropus.org

Forum / Mailinglist:
    http://groups.google.com/group/ocropus

Public Issue Tracker:
    http://www.ocropus.org/issues

OCRopus is made by IUPR:
    http://www.iupr.org

IUPR is a part of DFKI:
    http://www.dfki.de

hOCR Output Format:
    http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfxcv4vc_67g844kf
