end of development

[Jim Garrison]

Hi everyone,

I have come to the conclusion that I have no further intention of
maintaining moz-hocr-edit, the hOCR editor extension for Firefox [0].
Last year, an incompatible change in Firefox broke the extension [1],
and more recently Firefox has significantly changed its API for
extension developers [2]. I have not used or worked on moz-hocr-edit in
several years (in fact, the most recent release was over five years
ago), so I believe it is best for me to retire as its maintainer. It
was a fun ride, but it is over for me.

It would of course be wonderful if somebody were to fix these issues and
maintain the project in the future. I encourage anybody interested to
do so.

Jim


[0] http://jimgarrison.org/moz-hocr-edit/
[1] https://github.com/garrison/moz-hocr-edit/issues/1
[2]
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/

[jand...@iftm.edu.br]

Hi, Jim!

My name is Janderson and I'm searching about any API or tool that does search keyword texts in JPEG images from  sncanned old newspapers, magazines and so on. Could I use your plugin to do that?

Thanks!

[Jim Garrison]

Hi Janderson,

The plugin will not do this, but an OCR tool should be able to help with
the task. I haven't used any recently so am not sure what is best, but
you could start by looking at OCRopus

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[denni...@gmail.com]

Hi All,

As a work-around it seems like it might be possible to keep using  moz-hocr-edit in an older version of Firefox. E.g.  version 10.0.12esr from 2013. I described my own experiment in this direction here... https://github.com/garrison/moz-hocr-edit/issues/1#issuecomment-287972871 Many thanks to Jim for all the work he put into this. (I'm not a programmer, ...can't fix code.)  Dennis