[Gardeners] Ignore: [Lisp] SoC Idea: Optical Characters

[Stuart Sierra]

Oops, posted to the wrong list. Sorry.

Stuart Sierra wrote:
> Hedos wrote:
> 
>>Hi folks, I have an idea for the Summer of Code, I would like to know
>>what you think about it and see if any possible mentor might be
>>interested.
>>
>>This is by no mean a formal proposal at the moment.
>>
>>** Project title **
>>Optical Characters Recognition With Learning Capabilities
>>or
>>Human Trainable CAPTCHA Solver
> 
> 
> Solving CAPTCHAs is an interesting test of OCR capabilities, but I for 
> one would be far more interested in a *useful* open-source OCR 
> application (better than JOCR) that can learn to recognize different 
> fonts and layouts, ignore images, and work with poor-quality photocopies.
> 
> Of course, an OCR that can solve a tricky CAPTCHA might be pretty good 
> at general-purpose OCR as well.  But working with full-length documents 
> might allow it to make guesses based on the content of the text as well 
> as the image.
> 
> -Stuart