How to add new font library to kooka ocr software

shridhar005 · 04-20-2009, 08:19 AM

hey guys Im using ubuntu 8.10 & kooka 0.44 as optical character recognition software on ie ocr it works well for normal text fonts and images however it is unable to recognize cursive fonts completely,now does anybody knows how to add cursive font library to the software.

farslayer · 04-20-2009, 10:51 AM

from the Kooka FAQ

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F: Is Kooka OCR software?

A: No. Kooka just acts as a front end to different OCR engines. Kooka calls external OCR programs or uses libraries.
The first supported OCR program was gocr, which was written by Joerg Schulenburg, but nowadays there are others. It is one of Kooka's design targets to support as many OCR engines as possible.

So since Kooka isn't OCR software to begin with, the answer would have to be, you CAN"T add fonts to it.. you need to look further and see what OCR engine you are actually using. gocr, tesseract, other.

How to Train Tesseract

How to train gocr-- no clue on this one, their documentation is non-existant

How to train ocrupus

How to train GNU Ocrad - again no docs found..

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shridhar005 · 04-21-2009, 03:42 AM

YES I know that Kooka is not ocr itself it call external ocr and ocrad & gocr are these ocr currently used by kooka . My question is how to add cursive font library to these ocrs

farslayer · 04-21-2009, 02:54 PM

I provided Links to how to train 2 of the OCR applications..

you need to train them to understand the new fonts..