BSD Ports

graphics/claraocr 0.9.9nb12 NetBSD

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program for books

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
Categories
graphics, textproc
Package size
269.0 KiB, 1333.0 KiB installed

Description

Clara OCR is a free (GPL) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program for systems that support the C library and the X windows system (e.g. most flavours of Unix). The development platform of Clara OCR is 32-bit Intel running GNU/Linux.

Clara OCR is intended for large scale digitalization projects. It features a powerful GUI and a web interface for cooperative digitalization of books. Clara OCR development started in 1999 and is approaching production quality.

Features:

Converts pbm/pgm image files to text (ISO-8859)
Can process scans in batch for large documents
Can run from the command-line
Is relatively easy to train

Non-features:

Is not "omnifont"; you must train it for each document
Does not scan the images
Does not support unicode
Cannot read handwriting

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install claraocr

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/claraocr && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

RepositoryVersion
NetBSD 10.1 x86_640.9.9nb12
NetBSD 10.1 aarch640.9.9nb12
SmartOS / illumos x86_640.9.9nb12
macOS 15 arm640.9.9nb12

Dependencies

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