This announce is very, very important.
Visilab will release the next version of Nanodesktop (0.3.3) in few hours.
This new version will add new things, as the native support for custom
firmwares (so, the nd applications will be able to work on any PSP, SLIM
or FAT), the support for Sony GoCam, hundreds of bug fixes and
improvements, and new tecnologies as ndSIFT, ndGOCR, and ndSQLLite.
In the same time, I want to release this application for PSPE emulator
and for PSP (FAT and SLIM) called Visual-OCR.
Visual-OCR has been written by Andrea Badiali, the same programmer
that has written Visual Application. It is a front-end for the popular
GNU OCR program: it allows you to execute optical recognition on a
simple PSP.
You can download the package here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/83054540/VisualOCR.zip.html
The version for PSP, uses the new HAL for custom firmware (HAL CFW).
For this reason, you have to copy the "kernel extender" (ndKrnExtender.Prx)
in the root folder of your memory stick before starting the new
application. This driver is included in the zip package.
All future nd applications for custom firmwares, will require the same kernel
extender.
About the use of the program: choose a file (bitmap, jpg or png) in your
memory stick, that has been obtained by your scanner. Click on the
button "Start Scan" and the GOCR engine will start and it will print the
text that has been recognized on the screen.
For optimizations, see the documentation of GNU OCR.
http://jocr.sourceforge.net/