The orginal team members were Archie Russell, James Hopkin, and Cynthia Tian,
who contributed significantly to the original design.
Improved/Cut Down Version
(March, 2001) Keith Davies, kjdavies@telus.net has substantially revised this project and made it work for his application, which appears to require reading numeric digits. He also removed the dependence on Tcl/TK, which had become a troublesome issue: the Tcl/TK versions have improved to the extent that OCRchie needed changes to continue to run.
In any case, Keith was kind enough to send this material back to us, and we have posted it in this directory. If you make use of it perhaps you should keep Keith informed as well. Start by reading Keith's email about the changes and re-organization. There is a compressed tarball in that directory that can be moved at your convenience.
-- Richard Fateman
Project Documents
Product Overview
Detailed Project Specifications
Data Representation Summary
Character Recognition
Skew Detection and Correction
Using OCRChie
OCR Reference Links
If the links below have moved, you will undoubtedly be able to find many links with a search engine. Here are a few current sites (last updated July, 2000.)
Various non-technical industry reports and press release
reviews on OCR. At least some were written by non-experts, and
judging from the errors, may have been scanned in! How else to explain
misspelling ASCII as ASCH ?
An older (1997) but more respectably academic collection of links on OCR
TIFF Reference Links
Some info on TIFF
Comments? Mail
fateman@cs.berkeley.edu