[Blindmath] infty documentation

Fri Sep 10 22:21:13 UTC 2010

Hi Jamal,
The UDC software works like the Freedom internal printer. You'd 
select the software icon from within the printer menu and the 
resulting image is by default placed in the UDC folder which is 
located in the root directory, in my case, it's c:\.
Also, The UDC settings can be modified by first selecting the printer 
icon in the print dielogue window and then selecting options. It is 
absolutely vital to choose the correct resolution for your UDC output 
as that's one of the fundamental factors that the Infty software 
relies on for a successful conversion from the image file to LaTeX 
source or the xML based format.

As to using UdC in commandline mode, I haven't explored the idea 
myself. What you say makes sense and if it works it'll certainly make 
life much easier.

Paul

At 23:01 10/09/2010, you wrote:
>Hi Paul,
>I know nothing about the alpha issue, but let me clarify that my 
>statements were based on a complete study of the documentation.  I 
>may not have tried OCR on an included sample, but I have repeatedly 
>tried with various files of interest, using formats that the 
>documentation says are supported.  My tests included copying and 
>pasting command-line syntax from the documentation to ensure I was 
>not making such a mistake.
>
>I recall trying to use the Universal Document Printer software and 
>having trouble understanding what to do with it as a screen reader 
>user.  Based on your message, I will try again (if you are willing 
>to share step by step tips, please do).  I did try the ImageMagick 
>software to get other graphics formats into the types that Infty 
>wants, without success.
>
>A particular question I have about the UDC software is whether it is 
>possible to use it in a command-line mode so that a PDF could be 
>passed to UDC, and then a resulting TIF passed to Infty.  If so, 
>this could support batch conversions, which would be valuable.
>
>Jamal
>
>
>
>On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, PR Stanley wrote:
>
>>Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:04:58 +0100
>>From: PR Stanley <prstanley at ntlworld.com>
>>Reply-To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
>>     <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>>To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics 
>><blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>>Subject: [Blindmath] infty documentation
>>Hi folks
>>Here's the readme file that accompanies the commandline infty. as 
>>you can see it describes a fully functional software program 
>>released to the public, and not an alpha or beta or whatever put up 
>>there to be tried and tested only.
>>
>>text starts here
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Outline of the software and license agreement
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>InftyReader Version 2.4.4e (English edition)
>>All Rights Reserved, Copyright : InftyProject
>>URL:http://www.inftyproject.org/
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>1. Outline of the Software
>>
>>This is a software to recognize scientific documents including
>>mathematical expressions, developed in Masakazu Suzuki Laboratory,
>>Graduate school of Mathematics, Kyushu University in collaboration
>>with several cooperation partners. The software is usable free of
>>charge by everybody except for commercial or business purpose.
>>
>>The software recognizes only binary (black and white) page images
>>carefully scanned in either 600 DPI or 400 DPI. Image files have to be
>>prepared in either TIFF, GIF or PNG format. (The restriction of TIFF
>>format to CCITT-3/CCITT-4 is removed from the Version 2.4.3c).
>>The source documents have to be clearly printed.
>>
>>InftyReader erases small noises, segments page images into picture areas,
>>table areas and text areas, and then recognizes text areas including
>>mathematical expressions. However, to get better recognition results,
>>users are recommended to erase noises, pictures and tables before the
>>recognition, and, in scanning, to adjust the binarization threshold of
>>the scanner so that, in scanned page images, the number of the touched
>>or broken characters is less than 1% of the total number of the characters
>>in each page.
>>
>>2. Install and Usage
>>
>>InftyReader ver.2.4.4 is a command-line application.
>>To use InftyReader, please add the path to the folder of InftyReader.exe
>>in the environment variable "PATH". The default path after the install
>>of Inftyreader is :
>>
>>     c:\Infty\bin
>>
>>You may not change the default folder structure under the folder "bin".
>>
>>You can see the usage help of InftyReader typing "InftyReader" on the
>>command prompt.
>>
>>To use this software in a GUI window similar to older versions of InftyReader
>>and to view/edit the recognition results, please use
>>
>>   InftyEditor Ver.2.04x, or newer,
>>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>released from the site http://www.inftyproject.org/download/.
>>The English edition of InftyEditor ver.2.04x is a free software.
>>
>>3. Operating Environment
>>
>>InftyReader runs under Windows 2000 and XP. Note that it does not run
>>on Windows 98 nor Me.
>>
>>In order to run InftyReader on Windows 2000, it is necessary to update
>>your Windows 2000 to the recent one, since InftyReader makes use of some
>>libraries included in the version 6 of Internet Explorer package.
>>
>>4. Usage Syntax on the Command Prompt of Windows
>>
>>*SYNOPSIS
>>  InftyReader -help
>>  InftyReader folderName [fileName1] [fileName2]... [option]...
>>
>>  Infty.exe recognizes images specified by `fileName1', `fileName2',...
>>  in the folder `folderName'.
>>  Please be aware that folderName cannot be omitted, and you need to input
>>  "Space" after the folderName (not the key "\").
>>  When no file names are specified, all files with the extension 
>> .tiff and .tif
>>  in the `folderName' are recognized.
>>  The output file is saved in the same folder as the input image files.
>>  The default output format is IML.
>>  When the number of input files is one, the output file name is 
>> the same name
>>  as the input file.
>>  When the number of input files is more than one, the output file 
>> name is the
>>  same name as the `foldername'.
>>
>>    e.g.) InftyReader C:\Data\Images
>>    e.g.) InftyReader "C:\Document and Settings\user\images" image1.tif
>>    e.g.) InftyReader C:\Data\Images sample1.tif sample2.tif
>>    e.g.) InftyReader C:\Data\Images -n test -o C:\OutPut -f kml -f iml
>>    e.g.) InftyReader image1.tif (in case image1.tif is in the 
>> current folder)
>>    e.g.) InftyReader ../Images
>>
>>*Options
>>
>>-r (400 | 600)
>>  specifies the resolution of input images (default 600 dpi). Only 600/400
>>  dpi are acceptable. The resolution is set to 600 dpi when any other value
>>  is specified.
>>
>>  e.g.) InftyReader C:\Data\Images -r 400
>>
>>-f ( iml | kml | tex | html | mathml | hrtex )
>>  specifies output formats (default iml).
>>  One can get several result files in various formats
>>  by specifying several options.
>>
>>  e.g.) InftyReader C:\Data\Images -f iml -f kml
>>
>>-o outputFolderName
>>  changes the output folder name where the output file is produced.
>>
>>  e.g.) InftyReader C:\Data\Images -o C:\Data\OutPut
>>
>>-n outputFileName
>>  changes the output file name. The extension of the file is the output
>>  format specified by the option -f.
>>
>>  e.g.) InftyReader C:\Data\Images -n test
>>
>>-preamble preambleFile
>>  specifies the preamble file used in TeX format output.
>>  When no preamble file is specified, "defaultpreamble.tex" in the same
>>  folder as "Infty.exe" will be used. In case the preamble tex file is
>>  not found, the preamble will be empty in the TeX output.
>>
>>  e.g.) InftyReader C:\Data\Images -f tex -preamble C:\Data\preamble.tex
>>
>>
>>5. License Agreement
>>
>>The present version of InftyReader is usable free of charge only for
>>non-commercial and non-business purpose under the following license
>>agreement.
>>
>>(1) You may not modify the software in any manner. You may not reverse
>>    engineer, decompile or disassemble the software.
>>(2) You may not sell the software.
>>    You may distribute the software only free of charge, without modifying
>>    the zip-package of the software.
>>(3) The author shall have no obligation to correct errors and inconveniences
>>    of the software or to answer questions about the software.
>>(4) The author shall not be responsible for any lost and damage caused by
>>    the use of the software.
>>
>>6. Report
>>
>>Any hearty report about the software will be welcome.
>>
>>InftyProject
>>URL:http://www.inftyproject.org/
>>
>>Masakazu Suzuki
>>Faculty of Mathematics
>>Kyushu University 36
>>Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
>>e-mail: suzuki at math.kyushu-u.ac.jp
>>URL:http://www.math.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~suzuki/
>>text ends here
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>
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