Hi all,

a quick test with my 'atze' encoder/decoder and Microsoft OCR
gave no errors with this blurred text image. Can you archive
the same error free results under Linux and if, what program
do you use?

https://jmp.sh/MUJtkvAr

I used with my encoder 2000 bytes, converted to 8000 chars,
per A4 page. This is not as much as with stacked QR-codes,
but readable by humans and therefore ideally suited for
encrypted binary data.

Microsoft OCR is pretty awesome.

Regards
Stefan

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

Stefan Claas wrote:

Hi all,

a quick test with my 'atze' encoder/decoder and Microsoft OCR
gave no errors with this blurred text image. Can you archive
the same error free results under Linux and if, what program
do you use?

https://jmp.sh/MUJtkvAr

I used with my encoder 2000 bytes, converted to 8000 chars,
per A4 page. This is not as much as with stacked QR-codes,
but readable by humans and therefore ideally suited for
encrypted binary data.

Microsoft OCR is pretty awesome.

Online OCR decoders failed all.

Regards
Stefan

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

Stefan Claas wrote:

Stefan Claas wrote:

Stefan Claas wrote:

Hi all,

a quick test with my 'atze' encoder/decoder and Microsoft OCR
gave no errors with this blurred text image. Can you archive
the same error free results under Linux and if, what program
do you use?

https://jmp.sh/MUJtkvAr

I used with my encoder 2000 bytes, converted to 8000 chars,
per A4 page. This is not as much as with stacked QR-codes,
but readable by humans and therefore ideally suited for
encrypted binary data.

Microsoft OCR is pretty awesome.

Online OCR decoders failed all.

Tried Linux popular tesseract and the output is horrible.

No wonder, nobody replies, because Linux OS can't handle
it with its OCR FOSS.

Example: Microsoft Windows:

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Regards
Stefan

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Stefan Claas wrote:

Stefan Claas wrote:

Hi all,

a quick test with my 'atze' encoder/decoder and Microsoft OCR
gave no errors with this blurred text image. Can you archive
the same error free results under Linux and if, what program
do you use?

https://jmp.sh/MUJtkvAr

I used with my encoder 2000 bytes, converted to 8000 chars,
per A4 page. This is not as much as with stacked QR-codes,
but readable by humans and therefore ideally suited for
encrypted binary data.

Microsoft OCR is pretty awesome.

Online OCR decoders failed all.

Tried Linux popular tesseract and the output is horrible.

No wonder, nobody replies, because Linux OS can't handle
it with its OCR FOSS.

Regards
Stefan

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Stefan Claas <stefan@mailchuck.com> wrote:

Hi all,

a quick test with my 'atze' encoder/decoder and Microsoft OCR
gave no errors with this blurred text image. Can you archive
the same error free results under Linux and if, what program
do you use?

https://jmp.sh/MUJtkvAr

I used with my encoder 2000 bytes, converted to 8000 chars,
per A4 page. This is not as much as with stacked QR-codes,
but readable by humans and therefore ideally suited for
encrypted binary data.

Microsoft OCR is pretty awesome.

There is no such thing as "Linux OCR" (as in an OCR provided by Linux).

Tesseract is probably the most common one used on Linux, because it
(Tesseract) is open source and its source will compile with Linux C
compilers.

But that hardly makes it "Linux OCR" (not in the way that one would
mean with "Microsoft OCR" -- as in provided by Microsoft).

Note that Tesseract will (I think) compile for windows too, so if you
wanted to know "how well tesseract worked" you could just install the
windows version and see for yourself.

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Rich wrote:

Note that Tesseract will (I think) compile for windows too, so if you
wanted to know "how well tesseract worked" you could just install the
windows version and see for yourself.

I tried tesseract under Linux. It is horrible, because of to many errors.

Regards
Stefan

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Stefan Claas <stefan@mailchuck.com> wrote:

Rich wrote:

Note that Tesseract will (I think) compile for windows too, so if you
wanted to know "how well tesseract worked" you could just install the
windows version and see for yourself.

I tried tesseract under Linux. It is horrible, because of to many errors.

Fair enough. The windows version will do the same.

Two other options I'm aware of for Linux:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/office/gocr/

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/libraries/cuneiform/

I have never used either, so I can't comment on how well the work.

Your original image, however, is one that will be hard to OCR, so it is
quite amazing that whatever OCR engine MS supplies is actually able to
convert it with some accuracy.

If where you are going is storing binary data (keys/messages) as these
text strings, then you also want to consider the fact that many OCR
engines often confuse similar letters. I've seen 5 (five) become S
(letter ess) or 1 (one) become I (letter eye). I'm not sure I've seen
I become 1, but it is possible, esp. with a font with little to no
difference between those glyphs.

O (letter oh) and 0 (numeral zero) are often confused for each other as
well.

So you might want to restrict your character set to not include the
"easy to confuse" letter pairs. If they don't exist on the "printouts"
then they can't be confused for each other.

As an alternate, there is also the "OCR-A" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A) and "OCR-B" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B) fonts which was designed for
early OCR engines to be easy to read. Either might also still be
"easier to read" even though OCR engines have progressed since those
fonts were created.

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Rich wrote:

Stefan Claas <stefan@mailchuck.com> wrote:

Rich wrote:

Note that Tesseract will (I think) compile for windows too, so if you wanted to know "how well tesseract worked" you could just install the windows version and see for yourself.

I tried tesseract under Linux. It is horrible, because of to many errors.

Fair enough. The windows version will do the same.

Two other options I'm aware of for Linux:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/office/gocr/

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/libraries/cuneiform/

I have never used either, so I can't comment on how well the work.

Your original image, however, is one that will be hard to OCR, so it is
quite amazing that whatever OCR engine MS supplies is actually able to convert it with some accuracy.

With 100 % accuracy. :-)

If where you are going is storing binary data (keys/messages) as these
text strings, then you also want to consider the fact that many OCR
engines often confuse similar letters. I've seen 5 (five) become S
(letter ess) or 1 (one) become I (letter eye). I'm not sure I've seen
I become 1, but it is possible, esp. with a font with little to no
difference between those glyphs.

O (letter oh) and 0 (numeral zero) are often confused for each other as
well.

So you might want to restrict your character set to not include the
"easy to confuse" letter pairs. If they don't exist on the "printouts"
then they can't be confused for each other.

My 'atze' encoder uses the letters ATZE only. And these four letters resemble
a german word (slang) for brother.

As an alternate, there is also the "OCR-A" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A) and "OCR-B" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B) fonts which was designed for
early OCR engines to be easy to read. Either might also still be
"easier to read" even though OCR engines have progressed since those
fonts were created.

Well, I always use mono fonts.

Regards
Stefan

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Stefan Claas <stefan@mailchuck.com> wrote:

Rich wrote:

Stefan Claas <stefan@mailchuck.com> wrote:

Rich wrote:

Note that Tesseract will (I think) compile for windows too, so if you
wanted to know "how well tesseract worked" you could just install the
windows version and see for yourself.

I tried tesseract under Linux. It is horrible, because of to many errors. >>

Fair enough. The windows version will do the same.

Two other options I'm aware of for Linux:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/office/gocr/

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/libraries/cuneiform/

I have never used either, so I can't comment on how well the work.

Your original image, however, is one that will be hard to OCR, so it is
quite amazing that whatever OCR engine MS supplies is actually able to
convert it with some accuracy.

With 100 % accuracy. :-)

That is quite amazing in that case. Is this a built in windows OCR
feature, or a MS add on OCR for windows?

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Rich wrote:

Stefan Claas <stefan@mailchuck.com> wrote:

Rich wrote:

Stefan Claas <stefan@mailchuck.com> wrote:

Rich wrote:

Note that Tesseract will (I think) compile for windows too, so if you wanted to know "how well tesseract worked" you could just install the windows version and see for yourself.

I tried tesseract under Linux. It is horrible, because of to many errors.

Fair enough. The windows version will do the same.

Two other options I'm aware of for Linux:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/office/gocr/

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/libraries/cuneiform/

I have never used either, so I can't comment on how well the work.

Your original image, however, is one that will be hard to OCR, so it is quite amazing that whatever OCR engine MS supplies is actually able to convert it with some accuracy.

With 100 % accuracy. :-)

That is quite amazing in that case. Is this a built in windows OCR
feature, or a MS add on OCR for windows?

Before it was included in Windows 11 snipping tool, now it is included
in Windows 11 picture viever.

Regards
Stefan

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