Motivation: My motivation for trying WatchOCR is that NeatReceipts as a company blows, the software interface is crap, and the SQL Database they force you to install is bloated, slow to start, and took 4 hrs with tech support to install. NeatReceipts also only reports the aggregate information from the receipt (no individual breakdowns of line items). The UI really sucks; I have never worked with an management system that required you to jockey so many pulldowns and screen refreshes. Furthermore, when you request the software to export your data, they export your data to an encrypted zip that only they have the key to.
Experience: I just tried OCRing some scanned CVS receipts. These scans were obtained using NeatReceipts software, so the images have already been cleaned up, properly rotated etc. Cuneiform completely messed up the scan that NeatReceipts was able to do flawlessly. WatchOCR has a LONG way to go in terms of image quality. Far faster to install with a VM though. WatchOCR also will not extract the receipt information, but having the text of the receipt OCRed is the first step.
Hope: WatchOCR uses an improved algorithm. Somebody else jumps in and creates a module for extracting receipt data (perhaps using the spatial information from the PDF?)
Face it, linux failed at the desktop and now it will fail for games too. Linux is an academic exercise; its not meant for joe user. Hopefully this linux gaming craze will die down and Sam Launtigua will find a better way to spend his time.
you fuckin slashdot people make me sick with your linux bullshit and shit for brains cmments I hate you so much that I want to kill you and destroy your brains and everything you cocksuckers I hope you all die horrible deaths when you learn that you are all communist GLP whores by nature I want to see you all rot in hell you fuckin bastard motherfucking loser rot shit people type things and I hope you die stupid motherfuckers. oh yeah and go to hell you fuckin pieces of shit linux users
short of dropping the whole case against Microsoft. I'm glad to see that some people still realize we live in a capitalist society, governed by market forces and not Big Brother. The government has no right to dictate what kind of software companies can produce, and I thank people in the Bush administration for seeing that.
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Motivation:
My motivation for trying WatchOCR is that NeatReceipts as a company blows, the software interface is crap, and the SQL Database they force you to install is bloated, slow to start, and took 4 hrs with tech support to install. NeatReceipts also only reports the aggregate information from the receipt (no individual breakdowns of line items). The UI really sucks; I have never worked with an management system that required you to jockey so many pulldowns and screen refreshes. Furthermore, when you request the software to export your data, they export your data to an encrypted zip that only they have the key to.
Experience:
I just tried OCRing some scanned CVS receipts. These scans were obtained using NeatReceipts software, so the images have already been cleaned up, properly rotated etc. Cuneiform completely messed up the scan that NeatReceipts was able to do flawlessly. WatchOCR has a LONG way to go in terms of image quality. Far faster to install with a VM though. WatchOCR also will not extract the receipt information, but having the text of the receipt OCRed is the first step.
Hope:
WatchOCR uses an improved algorithm. Somebody else jumps in and creates a module for extracting receipt data (perhaps using the spatial information from the PDF?)
Face it, linux failed at the desktop and now it will fail for games too. Linux is an academic exercise; its not meant for joe user. Hopefully this linux gaming craze will die down and Sam Launtigua will find a better way to spend his time.
you fuckin slashdot people make me sick with your linux bullshit and shit for brains cmments I hate you so much that I want to kill you and destroy your brains and everything you cocksuckers I hope you all die horrible deaths when you learn that you are all communist GLP whores by nature I want to see you all rot in hell you fuckin bastard motherfucking loser rot shit people type things and I hope you die stupid motherfuckers. oh yeah and go to hell you fuckin pieces of shit linux users
This is the kind of faggot crap I am talking about
short of dropping the whole case against Microsoft. I'm glad to see that some people still realize we live in a capitalist society, governed by market forces and not Big Brother. The government has no right to dictate what kind of software companies can produce, and I thank people in the Bush administration for seeing that.