From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:52 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1398 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 17 December 2006 Number 1398 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Cheap NAS units : Ed Durrant 2 Re: Cheap NAS units - correction : Ed Durrant 3 Tesseract OCR : Alan Duval 4 Re: Tesseract OCR : Ian Manners" 5 Re: Tesseract OCR : nickl at pacific dot net dot au 6 Re: Tesseract OCR : Kris Steenhaut **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:02:56 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Cheap NAS units Hi, NAS or "Network attached storge" is a way to simply provide external shared storage on a small LAN. I went and bought my self such a unit (a Noontec BlueEye Gigasave NH35JB) from the North Rocks computer market today. I also bought a 250GB EIDE PATA drive to go in it - each item cost me A$95, so compared to NAS systems from a cople of years ago that used to cost thousands of dollars, this is indeed a very cheap option ! Upon getting it home and reading the doco that came with it, I was horrified to find that to connect to the unit you need some odd NDAS protocol and drivers / utilities were of course only supplied for Windoze or MAC, However the box clearly states that it uses CIFS (SMD), NFS or a couple of other methods to communicate. So I decided to do some research on the Internet to find what this NDAS protocol is all about and whether it is a proprietry protocol just from this company - luckily it isn't ! I found the following article where these new cheap NAS units are actually "friendly" to several OSes - including OS/2 ! http://www.theinquirer dot net/default.aspx?article=23586 I have yet to get this fully working but if my box uses this cheap single chip solution from Broadcomm which is likely, it seems we're talking good old Netbeui, which since Microsoft hid Netbeui on Windows XP would explain why they need their own software - plus they also allow RAID across multiple of these devices ! I'm not sure if I would configure RAID across a 100Mb/s LAN, but hey, they seem to think it's a good idea ! - That feature will only be supportable under Windows - as will be the integrated, one button press to backup your complete PC function. I'll let you know how I get on with this new challenge for OS/2 & eComstation !! Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:33:40 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Cheap NAS units - correction Ed Durrant wrote: > Hi, > > NAS or "Network attached storge" is a way to simply provide external > shared storage on a small LAN. > > I went and bought my self such a unit (a Noontec BlueEye Gigasave > NH35JB) from the North Rocks computer market today. I also bought a > 250GB EIDE PATA drive to go in it - each item cost me A$95, so compared > to NAS systems from a cople of years ago that used to cost thousands of > dollars, this is indeed a very cheap option ! > > Upon getting it home and reading the doco that came with it, I was > horrified to find that to connect to the unit you need some odd NDAS > protocol and drivers / utilities were of course only supplied for > Windoze or MAC, However the box clearly states that it uses CIFS (SMD), > NFS or a couple of other methods to communicate. > > So I decided to do some research on the Internet to find what this > NDAS protocol is all about and whether it is a proprietry protocol just > from this company - luckily it isn't ! I found the following article > where these new cheap NAS units are actually "friendly" to several OSes > - including OS/2 ! > > http://www.theinquirer dot net/default.aspx?article=23586 > > I have yet to get this fully working but if my box uses this cheap > single chip solution from Broadcomm which is likely, it seems we're > talking good old Netbeui, which since Microsoft hid Netbeui on Windows > XP would explain why they need their own software - plus they also allow > RAID across multiple of these devices ! I'm not sure if I would > configure RAID across a 100Mb/s LAN, but hey, they seem to think it's a > good idea ! - That feature will only be supportable under Windows - as > will be the integrated, one button press to backup your complete PC > function. > > I'll let you know how I get on with this new challenge for OS/2 & > eComstation !! > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > Having re-read the article, I realise that in fact the XiMeta based NAS units are the ones that use NDAS and are effectively Windoze only, the "NASOC" Broadcomm ones are those that should work "out of the box" with OS/2 and eComstation. Guess which type I have ? - Yep the XiMeta based one Let this be a warning for anyone looking in NAS units .... Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:28:19 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Tesseract OCR Hi, Has anyone installed Tesseract OCR? I note that it has been ported to OS/2 but don't know where to download it from. If anyone has installed it would you advise whether it does a good job with OCR? Regards, Alan Duval ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:15:02 +1100 (EDT) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Tesseract OCR Hi Alan >Has anyone installed Tesseract OCR? I note that it has been ported to >OS/2 but don't know where to download it from. If anyone has installed >it would you advise whether it does a good job with OCR? From Franz Bakan Let us know how you go with it :-) Someones positive take on it is at Cheers Ian Manners Tech Fossil (Often called a Dinosaur) - ancient animal that gets things done http://www.os2site dot com/ Reality is for people who can't handle Star Trek... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:09:56 +0800 From: nickl at pacific dot net dot au Subject: Re: Tesseract OCR Hi Alan & All In <45851BC3.4060809 at westnet dot com dot au>, on 12/17/2006 at 09:28 PM, Alan Duval said: >Hi, >Has anyone installed Tesseract OCR? I note that it has been ported to >OS/2 but don't know where to download it from. If anyone has installed >it would you advise whether it does a good job with OCR? Message I got from os2voice: --------------------------------- snip ------------- ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: Franz Bakan, posted on comp.os.os2.apps if you want to try another OCR-engine ... I have compiled the 'Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine' ( http://sourceforge dot net/projects/tesseract-ocr ) for OS/2 / eCS Currently it only recognizes English and its character set is only US-ASCII. Training code IS included in the open source release however, and will be included in a future release. You can download the OS/2-executable (including build-instructions) from my website: http://www.fbakan.de Enjoy Franz Bakan -- Warpstock 2007 - Where? http://www.warpstock dot org Warpstock Europe - Cologne, Germany, Nov. 17-19th, http://www.warpstock dot net [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] --------------------------- I've tried it, and is very easy to use. Seems to be good for reports etc., but fine print (like novels) is a bit much for it, but then again, that could be me. Seasons Greetings to All. Regards NICK -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice dot org unsubscribe news your.email.address at here end Or, visit http://www.os2voice dot org/MailingLists.html If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice dot org or go to http://www.os2voice dot org/fSubNews.html . Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice dot org >Regards, >Alan Duval > ----------------------------------------------------------- nickl at pacific dot net dot au ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:30:17 +0100 From: Kris Steenhaut Subject: Re: Tesseract OCR Alan Duval wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone installed Tesseract OCR? Yep. > I note that it has been ported to OS/2 but don't know where to > download it from. It has been ported by Franz Bakan, but being a modest guy he always forgets to refer to his website in the readme. Anyway, take it here: http://www.taartenbakkerij.eu/bestanden/tesseract-1_02.zip > If anyone has installed it would you advise whether it does a good > job with OCR? I was amazed it already worked properly "right out of the zip". I presume it doesn't do columns yest, so I didn't try that out. But on plain text + paragraphs it's working quite well, even with my texts in Italian. Bottom line: for the latter I don't have to launch anymore VPC/2 + ReadIris. What a releif! -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------