New Version of Firefox Android: with ARMv6 Support

New Version of Firefox Android: with ARMv6 Support 

Users of internet are surely aware of Mozilla Firefox. You will also know that Firefox is available for Google's famous operating system "Android". But problem was that Mozilla Firefox was just available for that smartphones which have the ARMv7 processor thats why a large number of mobile users could not use Firfox Mobile.

Mozilla recently announced that the latest version of Firefox Mobile can be use on mobile phones with ARMv6 processor. So now all customers which have low-cost smart phone such as the HTC ChaCha, Galaxy Ace or other having ARMv6 processor in mobile phones can install the Firefox browser.

From the last two years, Firefox's fans were demanding that ARMv6 mobile version of Firefox for mobile phones should be offer but due to some technical reasons the company was reluctant to do so.

The new version of Firefox have includes additional features such as the weakness nzrafrad back-talkie service for writing on the screen which will read. Donload this new version of Firefox from Google Playstore's link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox

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Correcting OCR using hOCR in Firefox

Quick post on a little tool I came across, moz-hocr-edit. This Firefox add-on lets you proofread Optical Character Recognition (OCR) output. Given my interest in OCR and the Biodiversity Heritage Library I decided to take it for a spin.

moz-hocr-edit uses the hOCR, which is a format for representing the output of OCR software, and is used by tools such as OCRopus (you can see the public specification for hOCR here). Basically it's a microformat, that is, it's HTML with some additional tags. Given some hOCR, moz-hocr-edit enables you to edit the OCR output line-by-line.

Demo
I've created a simple demo based upon Case 3368 Eatoniella Dall, 1876 and EATONIELLIDAE Ponder, 1965 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation. For the demo to work you will need to use the Firefox web browser with the moz-hocr-edit installed.

1. Go to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/639486/hocr/80780.html
2. You will see a simple HTML representation of the OCR text from "Case 3368 Eatoniella Dall, 1876 and EATONIELLIDAE Ponder, 1965 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation". I created this HTML from the original ABBYY FineReader XML from the Internet Archive.
3. On the bottom right-hand of the Firefox browser window you should see hOCR. Click on it and select "Edit this hOCR document":
   
4. Firefox will open a new tab that will look something like this:
   
5. You can now edit individual lines of text, and see your edits applied to the HTML below.

moz-hocr-edit is a neat little tool. With appropriate web server settings (and, as the tool's author Jim Garrison suggests, autoversioning) it could the basis of a great tool for correcting OCR errors in BHL.

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