A good OCR GUI for Ubuntu Lucid
Hi All, I'm thinking of installing OCRFeeder into my Lucid system, as soon as I get off work tonight, and can figure out how to add it's repository through Synaptic. Any comments on personal experiences with this and other OCR programs? Cheers, Carl Turney Bayswater
Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:
I'm thinking of installing OCRFeeder into my Lucid system, as soon as I
Lucid desktop packages are EOL'd. You should be planning an upgrade path. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases http://cyber.com.au/~twb/snarf/vtwb
Hi All, On 28/11/13 10:52, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Lucid desktop packages are EOL'd. You should be planning an upgrade path.
Yes, guess I should put a few days aside and do a fresh install of Precise, then every app I've settled down into a nice routine with, then tweak and tune each of them. Sigh. At least there's 5-year lifetimes for the desktop LTS releases. Carl
Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:
On 28/11/13 10:52, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Lucid desktop packages are EOL'd. You should be planning an upgrade path.
At least there's 5-year lifetimes for the desktop LTS releases.
Actually no. As my script hopefully shows, most of your desktop packages only receive 18mo support. My impression is that only packages on the GUI install CD count are marked as Support: 3y and only the packages on the server install CD are marked as Support: 5y.
On 29 November 2013 10:16, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:
On 28/11/13 10:52, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Lucid desktop packages are EOL'd. You should be planning an upgrade path.
At least there's 5-year lifetimes for the desktop LTS releases.
Actually no. As my script hopefully shows, most of your desktop packages only receive 18mo support. My impression is that only packages on the GUI install CD count are marked as Support: 3y and only the packages on the server install CD are marked as Support: 5y.
Lucid was 10.04, and 3y desktop support; Precise (12.04) came with 5y desktop support. Would be interesting to hear what the results of your script are on the 12.04 release? Although with 14.04 LTS due in six months, I'd suggest waiting for that rather than locking into 12.04 now for five years.
Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 29 November 2013 10:16, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:
On 28/11/13 10:52, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Lucid desktop packages are EOL'd. You should be planning an upgrade path.
At least there's 5-year lifetimes for the desktop LTS releases.
Actually no. As my script hopefully shows, most of your desktop packages only receive 18mo support. My impression is that only packages on the GUI install CD count are marked as Support: 3y and only the packages on the server install CD are marked as Support: 5y.
Lucid was 10.04, and 3y desktop support; Precise (12.04) came with 5y desktop support.
Note OP was running 10.04.
Would be interesting to hear what the results of your script are on the 12.04 release?
Note my script only reports on installed packages. You can use dctrl-tools queries to generate other reports. Work's migrating to Debian because we're sick of Canonical's NIH-happy rabid beaver model, so I don't really care anymore. When I wrote my original post on this thread, quacking turned up references to an in-Ubuntu tool to test this stuff, you might have luck with that. I didn't keep a bookmark, sorry. (Actually there was a bzr repo on launchpad for doing a similar job on 8.04, but I forget where it lives.)
Hi All, On 28/11/13 10:52, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Lucid desktop packages are EOL'd. You should be planning an upgrade path.
I'll strive to hold on to Lucid until 14.04 comes out, and THEN make a new Ubuntu system on a clean disk. Given that the OCRFeeder doesn't seem to have a repository that Synaptic can install from, and I need to download a "deb package"(?) from their website... http://code.google.com/p/ocrfeeder/downloads/list Do I just download ocrfeeder_0.6.6-1_all.deb save it to disk, open it with GDebiInstaller, and all the dependencies (etc.) will be automatically managed? If I install it this way, and find I don't want to keep it, will Synaptic be able to uninstall it? If not, how to uninstall it, without causing complications to other applications that may need some shared dependencies? Thanks very much, and I'll understand if you just curse and point me to some "how to install .deb packages on Ubuntu" web page. Carl Bayswater
On 28 November 2013 08:14, Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm thinking of installing OCRFeeder into my Lucid system, as soon as I get off work tonight, and can figure out how to add it's repository through Synaptic.
Any comments on personal experiences with this and other OCR programs?
Upload 'em all to Google Drive and let their superior OCR algorithms work for you, for free? https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?hl=en Alternatively, Tesseract is probably the best open-source OCR software. Not coincidentally, a lot of the work on it came from Google. https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ tjc
On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 11:01 +1100, Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 28 November 2013 08:14, Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm thinking of installing OCRFeeder into my Lucid system, as soon as I get off work tonight, and can figure out how to add it's repository through Synaptic.
Any comments on personal experiences with this and other OCR programs?
Upload 'em all to Google Drive and let their superior OCR algorithms work for you, for free? https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?hl=en
Alternatively, Tesseract is probably the best open-source OCR software. Not coincidentally, a lot of the work on it came from Google. https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
tjc
To throw a curve ball, the best OCR I've used is in the CamScan app in android. Use the camera to scan the document and then specify the page size, say, A4 then run the OCR and the app indexes the page. When you need to find a doc pick a word which may be in the document and the app will search for the page in its indexed repository in the phone. Very slick. Andrew Greig
Hi again, On 28/11/13 08:14, Carl Turney wrote:
Any comments on personal experiences with this and other OCR programs?
Thanks all, for your hints, comments, and helpful suggestions. Yesterday it took me a few hours (thanks mostly to inadequate or non-existent beginner-level documentation from the development team), but I've got OCRFeeder installed, running, and figured out (in a very kludgy manual work-around way). You guys (and gals) are great. Carl p.s. If only I had the time and patience to figure out OSMAnd.
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