Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> J.S. wrote:
>> I want to use OCR for recognition of text within images that are
>> loaded from another software. The problem is that every OCR software
>> I found
>> (including Ocrad) seem to _force_ you to specify a filename etc.
>
> Ocrad does not force you to specify a filename. It can act as a filter.
Ok, so you can pipe a file in it then...
>> I thought maybe 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*)
>
> I don't know. Libjocr is not part of Ocrad.
Oh sorry, i meant ocrad. Its just I posted a similar mail on the jocr
mailing list and obviously forgot to replace part of it ;)
>
>
>> 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.
>
> Try to execute ocrad through the `popen' function.
I actually started working on a fix using mkfifo().
Thanks for your help,
>
>
> Regards,
> Antonio.
>
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