Re: [Jocr-devels] OCR without loading a file

[Joerg <Joe...@UR...>]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, JS wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to use OCR for recognition of text within images that are loaded
> from another software. The problem is that every OCR library (including
> GOCR) seem to _force_ you to specify a filename etc.Now, I thought maybe

Why not using a pipe to stdin of gocr a la "djpeg | gocr -" ?
in C: pipe() fork() exec(gocr) or popen("gocr -")?

> I had missed something, so here would be my twofold question:
> 1) Is there a wait to use libjocr to process an image directly (e.g. an
> unsigned char*)

of course, its easy to replace gocr.c by your program and call pgm2asc().

Joerg

> 2) If not: what would you suggest me to do? I'd be ready to contribute
> some code but a bit of guidance would help a lot.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> ++ js
> 
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