Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by maouida » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 7:10 AM UTC

Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime
blogs.windows.com

Re: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by jamessantiago » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 8:23 AM UTC

Off topic, but this made me think that it would be neat if libraries on places like github and nuget could someout include "cited by" data. Something that referenced open source (maybe closed source too) projects that had a dependency to the library similar to google scholar or CiteSeerX.

Re: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by reallycurious » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 8:36 AM UTC

is this better than the terrassect OCR?

Re: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 8:37 AM UTC

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Re: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by asuidyasiud » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 8:37 AM UTC

jamessantiago wrote: post #2

Off topic, but this made me think that it would be neat if libraries on places like github and nuget could someout include "cited by" data. Something that referenced open source (maybe closed source too) projects that had a dependency to the library similar to google scholar or CiteSeerX.

You can get a DOI for github.

Re: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by jeroen » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 8:53 AM UTC

reallycurious wrote: post #3

is this better than the terrassect OCR?

Tesseract: https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

Re: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by rikkus » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 8:57 AM UTC

It doesn't appear that you can use this in a 'normal' .NET app. Any ideas why?

Re: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by steeve » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 9:12 AM UTC

We had great results using tesseract-ocr[1] with SWT (state of the art text detection algorithm, via libccv[2]) on Linux.

You can use our python bindings for both[3,4], although they might be slightly outdated:

[1] https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

[2] http://libccv.org/doc/doc-swt/

[3] https://github.com/veezio/pytesseract

[4] https://github.com/veezio/pyccv

Re: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by ghuntley » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 9:18 AM UTC

rikkus wrote: post #7

It doesn't appear that you can use this in a 'normal' .NET app. Any ideas why?

Can confirm that the actual package successfully installs into a Profile78 Portable Class Library. So whilst the marketing heavily mentions Windows Phone, in theory this library will also work on Xamarin (iOS/Android, etc) and also within standard .NET applications (ASP.NET/Console/etc).

nb: haven't actually tested past installation at this stage.

edit: nope :(

Re: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Post by rikkus » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 9:21 AM UTC

rikkus wrote: post #7

It doesn't appear that you can use this in a 'normal' .NET app. Any ideas why?

I made a C# Console app and added the nuget package. It adds, but there aren't any references. Within the nuget package, though, there is are three subdirectories within 'lib', one being 'win81'.

  packages\Microsoft.Windows.Ocr.1.0.0\lib\win81

Within this, there are 'ARM' 'x86' and 'x64' directories and dlls within them. VS refuses to add them to my project, so I'm guessing they're native and not COM libraries.

Why would I think they might be .NET libraries if they have 'x86' and 'x64' labels? Because C++/CLI has to be compiled to separate dlls, I believe.