Rocr Plugin
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This Optical Character Recognition plugin enables Users to define their own databases of recognizable characters. It utilizes the Tesseract, Evaluate and ReFound programs.
An rocr database contains a 'Recognition Point' (RP) map for each character, built by the User. Most character maps contain just 4 or 5 RPs, making it quick, reliable and efficient method of recovering text from images. You are not even restricted to recognizing normal character images – you may also use it to assign a code value to glyphs of rotated text, symbols, logos etc. and then simply process the glyph as a regular character.
| • | First create a sample PNG image of characters to be recognized, see Sampling. |
| • | Assign character codes to the glyphs in the sample image and set up their RP maps to create the database, see Training. |
| • | How to select RP pixels in the sample's glyphs to build an RP map: see Recognition Point maps. |
| • | How to process your document using the rocr database, export the recovered text as data-file and/or manipulate it using  EscapeE and the evaluate plugin: see Process files. |
This plugin is not part of the standard EscapeE delivery but may be purchased from RedTitan.
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