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1 OSRA: Optical Structure Recognition Application
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3 OSRA is a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical
4 structures, as they appear in journal articles, patent documents, textbooks,
5 trade magazines etc., into SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry
6 Specification - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMILES) or
7 SD files - a computer recognizable molecular structure format.
8 OSRA can read a document in any of the over 90 graphical formats parseable by
9 ImageMagick - including GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF, PS etc., and generate
10 the SMILES or SDF representation of the molecular structure images encountered
11 within that document.
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13 Note that any software designed for optical recognition is unlikely to be
14 perfect, and the output produced might, and probably will, contain errors,
15 so curation by a human knowledgeable in chemical structures is highly recommended.
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17 http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/osra/
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19 The wrapper comes with an automatic installation of all dependencies through the
20 galaxy toolshed.