# Ugly Writing

Wikipedia says that OCR means Optical Character Recognition or Reader and is defined as the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of text into machine-encoded text.

Ugly Writing aims to be your partner in any task that includes OCR. Are you a student looking for a efficient way to store your hand-written notes? Do you work in a library and need to sort old books? Are you writing a novel? Have you found your grandma's diary?

As Ugly Writing is hosted in France, you are covered by the very strict GDPR. Your data are yours and will stay yours. We will not sell 'em.

# Ugly Writing

Wikipedia says that OCR means
Optical Character Recognition or
Reader and is defined as the electronic
or mechanical conversion of images of text
into machine-encoded text.

Ugly Writing aims to be your partner
in any task that includes OCR. Are
you a student looking for a
efficient way to store your hand-
written notes? Do you work in a
library and need to sort old books?
Are you writing a novel? Have
you found your grandma's diary?

A's Ugly Writing is hosted
in France, you are covered
by the very strict GDPR.
Your data are yours and
will stay yours. We will not sell

# LIVRE PREMIER

## I. — LA CIGALE ET LA FOURMI¹

La Cigale, ayant chanté
Tout l'été,
Se trouva fort dépourvue
Quand la bise² fut venue :
Pas un seul petit morceau
De mouche ou de vermisséau.
Elle alla crier famine
Chez la Fourmi sa voisine,
La priant de lui prêter
Quelque grain pour subsister
Jusqu'à la saison nouvelle.
« Je vous paierai, lui dit-elle,
Avant l'ouït³, foi d'animal,
Intérêt et principal⁴. »
La Fourmi n'est pas prêteuse :
C'est là son moindre défaut⁵.

1. Esope, 154. Le même sujet a été traité par Babrius. On en rencontre de nombreuses imitations chez les Latins et dans les poètes français qui sont antérieurs à La Fontaine.

2. Bise, signifie proprement le vent du nord. Il est employé ici pour le temps froid, l'hiver.

3. C'est le mois d'août (Auguste), époque de la moisson. La Fontaine dit ailleurs :

Remuez votre champ dès qu'on aura
(fait l'ouït.
(Liv. V, fab. ix.)

4. L'engagement est complet : le serment, foi d'animal, la date du remboursement, avant l'ouït, la somme intégrale, intérêt et principal, rien n'y

manque. Les emprunteurs ne sont pas avares de promesses ; mais, selon Franklin, ceux qui font des dettes ont toujours le mensonge en croque.

5. Ce vers est obscur. La Fontaine ne veut pas dire que le plus petit défaut de la fourmi soit de ne pas prêter, mais que le prêt est ce qu'il y a de plus contraire à ses habitudes, la vertu qu'elle pratique le moins, et ironiquement son moindre défaut. — Ce sens donné à moindre est incontestable dans ce vers de Molière (École des Maris, acte I, scène vi) :

Je coquette fort peu, c'est mon moindre
(talent.

C'est-à-dire le talent one je possède le moins.

Form Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example: from a television broadcast).^[1]

Widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records – whether passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printed data, or any suitable documentation – it is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that they can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed online, and used in machine processes such as cognitive computing, machine translation, (extracted) text-to-speech, key data and text mining. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.

Early versions needed to be trained with images of each character, and worked on one font at a time. Advanced systems capable of producing a high degree of accuracy for most fonts are now common, and with support for a variety of image file format inputs.^[2] Some systems are capable of reproducing formatted output that closely approximates the original page including images, columns, and other non-textual components.

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|  **Optical character recognition** or **optical character reader** (**OCR**) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example: from a television broadcast).^{[1]}  |   |
|  Widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records – whether passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printed data, or any suitable documentation – it is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that they can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed online, and used in machine processes such as cognitive computing, machine translation, (extracted) text-to-speech, key data and text mining. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.  |   |
|  Early versions needed to be trained with images of each character, and worked on one font at a time. Advanced systems capable of producing a high degree of accuracy for most fonts are now common, and with support for a variety of image file format inputs.^{[2]} Some systems are capable of reproducing formatted output that closely approximates the original page including images, columns, and other non-textual components.  |   |