Visual OCR for Nanodesktop

[wraggster]

News from Pegasus2000:


This announce is very, very important.

Visilab will release the next version of Nanodesktop (0.3.3) in few hours.
This new version will add new things, as the native support for custom
firmwares (so, the nd applications will be able to work on any PSP, SLIM
or FAT), the support for Sony GoCam, hundreds of bug fixes and
improvements, and new tecnologies as ndSIFT, ndGOCR, and ndSQLLite.

In the same time, I want to release this application for PSPE emulator
and for PSP (FAT and SLIM) called Visual-OCR.

Visual-OCR has been written by Andrea Badiali, the same programmer
that has written Visual Application. It is a front-end for the popular
GNU OCR program: it allows you to execute optical recognition on a
simple PSP.

You can download the package here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/83054540/VisualOCR.zip.html

The version for PSP, uses the new HAL for custom firmware (HAL CFW).
For this reason, you have to copy the "kernel extender" (ndKrnExtender.Prx)
in the root folder of your memory stick before starting the new
application. This driver is included in the zip package.

All future nd applications for custom firmwares, will require the same kernel
extender.

About the use of the program: choose a file (bitmap, jpg or png) in your
memory stick, that has been obtained by your scanner. Click on the
button "Start Scan" and the GOCR engine will start and it will print the
text that has been recognized on the screen.

For optimizations, see the documentation of GNU OCR.

http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

[osgeld]

just like the last news on this, i still dont know what a nanodesktop is, nor do i have anywhere to find out

[No_one_in_particular]

www.google.com

Not that it doesn't say exactly what it does in the actual post...

[osgeld]

google is cool, if i actually cared but theres no reason that I should have to go out of MY way to find out what this thing is, would it kill a dev to actually post a screenshot and maby a description ?? they just dont exist for this program


and no it doesnt say shi+ in the actual post, it tells me theres hundereds of bug fixes to a program that apparently no one here knows anything about

some history on opensource OCR, a download that will be dead in less than a week, some PITA instructions to get OCR working for this mystery program and some basic instructions on this one function

still dont know what nanodesktop does, and again if its too much trouble for the dev to put something more than "fixed bugs" then im not going to spend time looking

[Pegasus2000]

Nanodesktop is a SDK (Software Development Kit).

It allows you to create quickly your
application for PSP: it integrates routines
for file managers, open/show/save images
for 10 different types, network support,
irda support, raw-ir support, engine for
text to speech synthesis, OpenCV
support, database support, OCR support
and so on.

There are thousands of functions available
for the developers: with few rows of code,
it is possible to create very complex
windows applications for PSP.

The system is designed for portability, so
it is possible to change platform simply
through a simple recompilation.

This is the official site for nd:

http://visilab.unime.it/~filippo/

I am updating the site with new version,
so, try some hour later.

This is the wikipedia page:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanodesktop

And this is the official forum:

http://www.psp-ita.com/forum/

[osgeld]

thanks