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Patsyblefebre: Gramps

2013-02-05T01:23:20Z

Gramps

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2013-01-05T19:02:22Z

‎Example and related informations

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‎Example and related informations

Romjerome: /* Using OCR with GRAMPS */

2011-02-02T17:30:25Z

‎Using OCR with GRAMPS

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2011-01-30T22:35:53Z

‎Using OCR with GRAMPS

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2010-08-23T11:45:33Z

‎Example and related informations

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2010-08-23T11:43:21Z

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Romjerome: /* Using OCR with GRAMPS */

2010-03-21T07:28:26Z

‎Using OCR with GRAMPS

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‎Using OCR with GRAMPS

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+While researching your family tree, you will use books or administrative documents. You may avoid long and annoying work or transcribing texts into Gramps by using optical character recognition ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition OCR]).
-While researching your family tree, you will use books or administrative documents. You may avoid long and annoying work or transcribing texts into GRAMPS by using optical character recognition ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition OCR]).
 Here we show you how to work on your picture or scan of a document to change it into typed text.
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 * Some programs recognize bold, italic or custom fonts size.
-==Using OCR with GRAMPS==
+==Using OCR with Gramps==
 There is not a lot of OCR open sources programs, and those that exist mostly use the same backend. For ''Intelligent Word Recognition (IWR)'' or ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Character_Recognition Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)]'', used for written certificates, they are even rarer.
-You can use some of the programs alongside GRAMPS. For the backend tools, only command line tools are available (use ''-h'' for the options), but fortunately some GUI's have been made too:
+You can use some of the programs alongside Gramps. For the backend tools, only command line tools are available (use ''-h'' for the options), but fortunately some GUI's have been made too:
 * [http://www.claraocr.org/en.html ClaraOCR] is intended for large scale digitalization projects. It features a powerful GUI and a web interface for cooperative digitalization of books.
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 *[http://www.diybookscanner.org/ Do It Yourself Book Scanner] and how to make a book scanner out of stuff we can find in dumpsters, or buy cheaply, including off-the-shelf, cheap digital camers. Se also the related [http://code.google.com/p/diy-ebook-creator/ ebook project].
-[[Category:Sources]][[Category:Genealogy]]
+[[Category:Sources]]

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 *[http://sites.google.com/site/decapodproject/ decapodproject] is a project focused on building a low-cost digitization solution that will allow for rare materials, materials held in collections without large budgets, and other scholarly content to be digitized into a high-quality PDF format. This project will work to incorporate the hardware and software necessary to accomplish this goal.
-*[http://www.diybookscanner.org/ Do It Yourself Book Scanner] and how to make a book scanner out of stuff we can find in dumpsters, or buy cheaply, including off-the-shelf, cheap digital camers.
+*[http://www.diybookscanner.org/ Do It Yourself Book Scanner] and how to make a book scanner out of stuff we can find in dumpsters, or buy cheaply, including off-the-shelf, cheap digital camers. Se also the related [http://code.google.com/p/diy-ebook-creator/ ebook project].
 [[Category:Sources]][[Category:Genealogy]]

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	*[http://sites.google.com/site/decapodproject/ decapodproject] is a project focused on building a low-cost digitization solution that will allow for rare materials, materials held in collections without large budgets, and other scholarly content to be digitized into a high-quality PDF format. This project will work to incorporate the hardware and software necessary to accomplish this goal.		*[http://sites.google.com/site/decapodproject/ decapodproject] is a project focused on building a low-cost digitization solution that will allow for rare materials, materials held in collections without large budgets, and other scholarly content to be digitized into a high-quality PDF format. This project will work to incorporate the hardware and software necessary to accomplish this goal.
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		+	*[http://www.diybookscanner.org/ Do It Yourself Book Scanner] and how to make a book scanner out of stuff we can find in dumpsters, or buy cheaply, including off-the-shelf, cheap digital camers.

	[[Category:Sources]][[Category:Genealogy]]		[[Category:Sources]][[Category:Genealogy]]

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 You can use some of the programs alongside GRAMPS. For the backend tools, only command line tools are available (use ''-h'' for the options), but fortunately some GUI's have been made too:
-* [http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ Tesseract] may be a good solution. Version 2.00 and later support English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch.
+* [http://www.claraocr.org/en.html ClaraOCR] is intended for large scale digitalization projects. It features a powerful GUI and a web interface for cooperative digitalization of books.
 * [http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ GOCR/JOCR] is used by [http://www.xsane.org/ xsane] and [http://kooka.kde.org/ kooka]. It can generate custom database characters from a picture with the command:
   mkdir ./db
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 * With [http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html Ocrad], you need to use pgm file format.
 * People using KDE will probably know [http://kooka.kde.org/ Kooka] the standard KDE scanning tool with builtin OCR (using [http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ GOCR], [http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html Ocrad], which are OSS, or the commercial KADMOS).
 * [http://live.gnome.org/OCRFeeder OCRFeeder] is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.
 * The [http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ OCRopus] engine is based on two research projects: a high-performance handwriting recognizer developed in the mid-90's and deployed by the US Census bureau, and novel high-performance layout analysis methods. See, also [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfxcv4vc_67g844kf hOCR format] and [http://code.google.com/p/hocr-tools/ hOCR tools].
 ==Example and related informations==

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 * People using KDE will probably know [http://kooka.kde.org/ Kooka] the standard KDE scanning tool with builtin OCR (using [http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ GOCR], [http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html Ocrad], which are OSS, or the commercial KADMOS).
-* Also, [http://www.corollarium.com/conjecture/index.php Conjecture] is an OCR third party tool who incorporate both open sources programs code bases.
+* Also, [http://conjecture.sourceforge.net/ Conjecture] is an OCR third party tool who incorporate both open sources programs code bases.
 * The [http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/ Gamera Project] is a framework for the creation of custom OCR applications. It supports the training of custom character shapes.
 * The [http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ OCRopus] engine is based on two research projects: a high-performance handwriting recognizer developed in the mid-90's and deployed by the US Census bureau, and novel high-performance layout analysis methods. See, also [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfxcv4vc_67g844kf hOCR format] and [http://code.google.com/p/hocr-tools/ hOCR tools].

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	*[http://bookliberator.com bookliberator] is a set of free software and hardware to digitize books: it lets you photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. The resulting images can be processed with free, open source software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats.		*[http://bookliberator.com bookliberator] is a set of free software and hardware to digitize books: it lets you photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. The resulting images can be processed with free, open source software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats.
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		+	*[http://sites.google.com/site/decapodproject/ decapodproject] is a project focused on building a low-cost digitization solution that will allow for rare materials, materials held in collections without large budgets, and other scholarly content to be digitized into a high-quality PDF format. This project will work to incorporate the hardware and software necessary to accomplish this goal.

	[[Category:Sources]][[Category:Genealogy]]		[[Category:Sources]][[Category:Genealogy]]

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	*[http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/book-flipping-scanning Superfast scanner lets you digitize a book by rapidly flipping pages]		*[http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/book-flipping-scanning Superfast scanner lets you digitize a book by rapidly flipping pages]
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		+	*[http://bookliberator.com bookliberator] is a set of free software and hardware to digitize books: it lets you photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. The resulting images can be processed with free, open source software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats.

	[[Category:Sources]][[Category:Genealogy]]		[[Category:Sources]][[Category:Genealogy]]

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	* The [http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/ Gamera Project] is a framework for the creation of custom OCR applications. It supports the training of custom character shapes.		* The [http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/ Gamera Project] is a framework for the creation of custom OCR applications. It supports the training of custom character shapes.
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		+	* The [http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ OCRopus] engine is based on two research projects: a high-performance handwriting recognizer developed in the mid-90's and deployed by the US Census bureau, and novel high-performance layout analysis methods. See, also [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfxcv4vc_67g844kf hOCR format] and [http://code.google.com/p/hocr-tools/ hOCR tools].

	==Example and related informations==		==Example and related informations==

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	* People using KDE will probably know [http://kooka.kde.org/ Kooka] the standard KDE scanning tool with builtin OCR (using [http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ GOCR], [http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html Ocrad], which are OSS, or the commercial KADMOS).		* People using KDE will probably know [http://kooka.kde.org/ Kooka] the standard KDE scanning tool with builtin OCR (using [http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ GOCR], [http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html Ocrad], which are OSS, or the commercial KADMOS).

−	* [http://www.geocities.com/claraocr/ claraocr] seems to be able to [http://stderr.org/doc/clara/clara-tut.html#1.3 learn]. It opens natively [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_pixmap PNM] file formats.
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	* Also, [http://www.corollarium.com/conjecture/index.php Conjecture] is an OCR third party tool who incorporate both open sources programs code bases.		* Also, [http://www.corollarium.com/conjecture/index.php Conjecture] is an OCR third party tool who incorporate both open sources programs code bases.

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	*There is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CuneiForm_(software) CuneiForm] for ocr image to text.		*There is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CuneiForm_(software) CuneiForm] for ocr image to text.
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−	*A [http://groundstate.ca/ocr review] of free optical character recognition software under Linux.

	*A [http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan robot scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D]. Also, This summer a group of graduate and undergraduate students of Greek will gather at the [http://chs.harvard.edu/ Center for Hellenic Studies] in Washington, D.C., to produce XML transcriptions of the text. Eventually, their work will be posted online for anyone to search under [http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ Creative Commons] licence.		*A [http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan robot scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D]. Also, This summer a group of graduate and undergraduate students of Greek will gather at the [http://chs.harvard.edu/ Center for Hellenic Studies] in Washington, D.C., to produce XML transcriptions of the text. Eventually, their work will be posted online for anyone to search under [http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ Creative Commons] licence.