Monday, May 18, 2009

BanglaOCR V 0.6 (for Linux users) | Released

This is the announcement about the release of BanglaOCR V 0.6 (for Linux users). The release information is provided below:

Perquisites:
1. Tesseract OCR
2. Tidy
3. Java Runtime Environment (v 1.6)
4. Font : SolaimanLipi

Feedback:
Any feedback about the application is highly appreciable. At present you can post feedback on the following email address: bangla.ocr@gmail.com

Test Images:
A set of test images are also provied with this package. So, please feel free to download and test. The images were randomly selected to test the application and obviously not based on the best performance.

Download Link:
BanglaOCR V 0.6 (Linux Users)

Thursday, May 7, 2009

BanglaOCR V 0.7 | Source Code Released

This is the announcement about the release of the source code of BanglaOCR (Windows) V 0.7.

Feedback:
Please send feedback on the following email address: bangla.ocr@gmail.com

Test Images:
A set of test images are also available in the same site where the OCR setup package is available. So, please feel free to download them and test.

Download Link:
BanglaOCR V 0.7 (source code)
Test Images set 1
Test Images set 2

BanglaOCR V 0.7 | Released

This is the announcement about the release of BanglaOCR V 0.7. The release information is provided below:

Perquisites:
1. Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86)
2. Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)
3. Java Runtime Environment

User's Manual:
The manual will be available after installing BanglaOCR. Go to Start>> All Programs >> BanglaOCR>> BanglaOCR User Guide.

Feedback:
Any feedback about the application is highly appreciable. At present you can post feedback on the following email address: bangla.ocr@gmail.com
I am planning to build a document image database. So, if you would like, then send us your document images.

Test Images:
A set of test images are also available in the same site where the OCR setup package is available. So, please feel free to download them and test. The images were randomly selected to test the application and obviously not based on the best performance.

Major Changes with v 0.6
- Skew detection and correction added.
- Noise elimination added.
- Added support to recognize multiple column/block image.

Download Link:
BanglaOCR V 0.7 (Setup file)
Test Images set 1
Test Images set 2