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Subject: Re: OCRing extracted inline images vs. fully rendered pages?
From: John Hewson <john@jahewson.com>
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 09:26:58 -0700
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> On 17 May 2016, at 05:25, Allison, Timothy B. <tallison@mitre.org> =
wrote:
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> All,
>  On Tika, users can choose to run OCR on inline images (and attached =
images, of course).  Would it be better for us to render each full page =
and then run OCR on that?

We have an experimental integration with Tesseract which was created a =
while ago by a GSoC student. Because it requires building C++ we=E2=80=99v=
e not integrated it into trunk, but do have it on the todo list for 2.1. =
The advantage of this approach is that we can keep any embedded text in =
the PDF and embellish it with the output.

https://github.com/DImuthuUpe/OCR-Plugin

=E2=80=94 John

>         Best,
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>                  Tim
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