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An open-source note-taking app that facilitates drawing/handwriting?
I don't know what kind of hardware my device will be yet, but I imagine that it'll be a detachable 2-in-1 that runs Linux. As stated in that link, I plan to get help to add some function(s) into the ...
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Is there a non-Google-infested alternative to Tesseract OCR (free command-line OCR software with Windows support)?
I thought I had found exactly what I was looking for: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
Everything was perfect, until I read:
Since 2006 it is developed by Google.
I would rather not have ...
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Gratis Windows OCR software
I have some PDFs which contain scans of print - as images. Some are books with or without illustrations, some are comics with mixed text & graphics (all are long out of copyright).
Is there some ...
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Looking for software that allows me to look for a logo inside a group of images
I have between 60,000 and 100,000 images and 1.5% of them contain a specific logo. This logo is not always depicted in the same size or orientation. Is there a freeware program for Windows that would ...
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Free API for handwritten OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
I wanted to know if there are any free APIs available for text recognition from a handwritten document. I looked in Google Vision API, Microsoft Cognitive API but all of the above are paid. So is it ...
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Text Recognition API
I am working on a dictionary App for Android and iOS. Where I want to have feature like place the camera on a word and the app will recognize the word and will show the meaning of that word.
For ...
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OCR software for Linux
I am looking for OCR software to digitalize scans. Some are prints, some are hand-written (like this). I want to have an easier time finding documents. So I want to generate one text file for each ...
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OCR Music Notes reader and player
I'm looking for Windows software that OCR music notes from pc. The input is paper with music notes. The software should enable to use the pc camera for snapshot and then plays the notes. Please ...
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OCR for sheet music
I have photos and scanned images of music notation (in JPG format, but I could create any other format as well, if needed).
Now I need a program that
examines the music on the picture
generates a "...
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Free OCR for youtube and screen
I'm looking for a downloadable freeware (gratis) that works similarly to Windows Snipping Tool. You create a rectangle around the required text and the software transforms it into regular text. If it ...
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Better picture->ASCII art converter, that takes character shapes into account
Typical picture to AA converter just treats all output characters as pixels, considering only it's overall boldness.
I want Image -> Ascii Art converter that uses OCR technologies and choses ...
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Convert PDF text as image to MOBI
I have a few public domain PDFs which someone has simply scanned and the converted the .JPEG to .PDF.
Which gratis app can convert them to .MOBI, retaining as much formatting as possible (btw, it ...
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Image to text converter
I have this book full of mathematical equations. I want a way to take the image of parts of the book, and convert it into a Word document with the mathematical equations in them. Now, if such a ...
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OCR SDK to convert Arabic and English text from scanned cards
Which is the good yet economical (or free) OCR SDK to convert Arabic and English text from scanned card images?
Kind of Application
OCR SDK (Software Development Kit)
Platform
The SDK should be ...
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Program that can extract subtitles from hard-subbed videos?
I am looking for a program that can extract/create subtitles from a video that has been hard-subbed rather than a video that has been soft-subbed where it is rather quite easy to extract these ...
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Free OCR software that makes a PDF searchable (with searchable text at the right place)
Is there any freeware OCR software (for Linux and/or Windows) that can take a PDF scanned document as input and output a Searchable PDF like Adobe Acrobat does?
With searchable PDF I meant that the ...
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Business card storage/search for Android, works offline
I need to store business cards and find them later by search.
Requirements:
Take picture (sometimes two-sides)
Save picture at appropriate resolution/compression (kilobytes rather than megabytes)
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Tool for optical character recognition (OCR)
Is there a tool that can recognise text in a scanned document (PNG, JPG) and convert it into a regular text file (DOC, TXT)?
It should
Work on Ubuntu and Mac OS X
Be free
Work with most common ...
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