Monday, April 11, 2011

EWT39 – Optical Recognition

First time I have participated in European weekend testing on April 9th 2011 , 8:30PM to 10:30 PM IST.
Participants: Ajay Balamurugadas, Markus Gärtner, Michael Larsen, Balu, madhusudhan, Narasimha Reddy, vamshi, David O’Dowd.
Mission for EWT39 testing:
European Weekend Testers: Compare the following image to text converters:
     http://www.free-ocr.com/
     http://www.onlineocr.net/default.aspx
     https://docs.google.com/DocAction?action=updoc&hl=en
 by:
1)file size capability
2)speed of conversion
3)quality of conversion (defined by the tester)

4)find other aspects that can be a relevant metric and point out the observations

After seeing the mission i thought how to get OCR files, then created MPEG file with text , numbers and free hand written letters using mspaint.
Here is my observations while testing.
www.free-ocr.com
  •   word ends with ... does not displaying
  •   capta images converted correctly
  • Number 6 converted as 5
  •   free hand written letters does not converted.
  •   for pdf files first page only converted to text other pages omitted.( known limitation)
http://www.onlineocr.net/default.aspx
  • ! displaying as I
  • capta image contains Wfskey text displayed as -,Alisk y
  • Number conversion is good. 
  • for pdf files first page only converted to text other pages omitted.( known limitation)
https://docs.google.com/DocAction?action=updoc&hl=en
  • Capta images contains Wfskey text does not converted
  • Numbers does not converted.
  • Pdf file conversion is good.
I have learned a lot from participants.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Exploratory testing

I have attended the exploratory testing taken by Pradeep Soundararajan on 27th March 2010.
I learned how to explore the things while testing. Focusing and defocusing . Session based management testing.

Tools for better testing:
    Testing Tools
    TestersDesk.com
    Network Security Tools
    Session Tester