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That's cool! I created an entry for T-PEN in FOSS4Lib (http://foss4lib.org/package/t-pen) so others can more easily find it. (Jim: I also had the FOSS4Lib site send you a login id/password so you can go in and update the T-PEN entry in case I got anything wrong.) Thanks for the self-promotion! Peter On Mar 12, 2013, at 3:10 PM, James Ginther <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > At the risk of shameless self-promotion, I would suggest an alternative to > the attempt at using OCR for handwriting. My field of research focuses on > pre-modern manuscripts which, to no one's surprise, have resisted any OCR > method. One solution is to create an environment that makes transcribing > an effective and efficient task. To that end, here at Saint Louis > University, we built a web-based app called T-PEN. T-PEN attempts to > identify the location of each line on a digital surrogate and then displays > it with a text box underneath to ensure accurate transcription. > > The URL is t-pen.org. It's free for anyone. In addition to the > repositories that have given us access, users can upload private images to > work with. > > I know that this solution is not ideal for large sets of handwritten texts, > but T-PEN does support crowd-sourcing (what we call public projects). You > can also encode as you transcribe and then export the transcription as an > XML document (and you can even export transcriptions in OAC currently as > RDF/XML). > > There is introductory video at > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_81fJbOpTcE. > > Jim > > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> If it's for a discrete project, I'd say scan what you need OCR'd and put it >> on Mechanical Turk >> >> kyle >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Donna Campbell <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >>> On a related note, I am looking for a recommendation for software that >>> provides OCR for handwriting (print and/or cursive). To clarify, this >>> would be pen ink on paper not digital ink. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Donna R. Campbell >>> Technical Services & Systems Librarian >>> (215) 935-3872 (phone) >>> (267) 295-3641 (fax) >>> Mailing Address (via USPS): >>> Westminster Theological Seminary Library >>> P.O. Box 27009 >>> Philadelphia, PA 19118 USA >>> Shipping Address (via UPS or FedEx): >>> Westminster Theological Seminary Library >>> 2960 W. Church Rd. >>> Glenside, PA 19038 USA >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >>> Eric Lease Morgan >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:57 AM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] web-based ocr >>> >>> Does anybody here know of a Web-based OCR program or Web service? >>> >>> Many people want to do OCR against digitized texts. We all know of >> various >>> OCR applications (Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, Google's Tesseract, >>> etc.), but they are not necessarily Web-based. As a service to my >>> university, I thought it might be cool (or "kewl") to support an image to >>> text application. Go to Web form. Submit one or more image files. Have >> OCR >>> done against them no matter how dirty the output. Return plain text. As a >>> bonus, the application would support a REST-ful API. >>> >>> Does anybody know of something like this that exists already? >>> >>> -- >>> Eric Lease Morgan >>> University of Notre Dame -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS [log in to unmask] +1 678-235-2955 800.999.8558 x2955