[okfn-labs] OCR API?

[Friedrich Lindenberg]

Especially their online service, ocrsdk.com ist very good - we tried it out
with yanukovichleaks for Russian and Ukrainian docs, but they wouldn't give
us any free queries :) Still, I think we need to have a better open source
stack, for all of those projects where you don't really want to send all of
your documents to three dozen untrusted services.

- Friedrich

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Ivan Begtin <ibegtin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Matthew.
>
> Do-it-yourself OCR is great idea, just it's not so simple for languages
> other than English. I don't know any free OCR engine or service for Russian
> language.
>
> A few times we partnered with Russian OCR company - Abbyy and they
> provided as free access to online OCR API - http://www.abbyyonline.com
>
> I could ask them to provide free access to their OCR service. I can't
> promise that they will do it, but chance is much more than 50%.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>    Ivan Begtin
>
> 2014-10-31 14:51 GMT+03:00 Matthew Fullerton <matt.fullerton at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi okfn-labs,
>> The need for OCR comes up again and again. I suppose often enough its
>> enough to run the document(s) through the program of choice (I would be
>> interested in what this is right now) and then deal with the consequences.
>> What I want to know is whether there are any do/-it-yourself service/API
>> solutions out there that I could get up and running on a server to use on a
>> permanent basis?
>>
>> If there isn't one yet I will probably be helping to cobble one together.
>> So advice, experience and expressions of interest would also be appreciated.
>>
>> Best,
>> Matt
>>
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