[Chicago-talk] Mechanical Turk

[Michael Potter]

yes, we are using tesseract-3.00 for OCR of the computer printed text.

We are going to try to get the tesseract trained to do hand written block
letters, but I am not holding out a lot of hope that it will work with.

I am researching the next best option which might be the mechanical turk.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Joel Berger <joel.a.berger at gmail.com>wrote:

> Have you tried OCRing programmatically?
> http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=all&query=ocr
>
> How have the results been? It seems that if you could eliminate the
> easy ones and perhaps only shift the problematic ones to mTurk that
> would be cheaper.
>
> Joel
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Michael Potter <michael at potter.name>
> wrote:
> > Perl Crew,
> > I have been called upon to try to do "OCR" on handwriting.
> > In particular, I need to convert a hand written name to ascii.  I could
> > provide a small .tif with just the name in it.
> > It came to mind that this might be a good use of mechanical turk.
> > I am sending this to the perl list because I seem to recall some of the
> > Mongers have worked with mechanical turk.
> > Here are my specific questions:
> > 1) how long is typical turn around for a response?
> > 2) Is this a reasonable task for Mechanical Turk.
> > I looked at the amazon website for HITs similar to what I am trying to
> do.
> >  I did not find any, but I question my ability to search completely.  The
> > closest I found was business card transcription.
> > You comments welcome.
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> > michael at potter.name
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