Re: [Gnome-OCR] Integration of Tesseract-OCR...

[Emmanuel Fleury <fleury labri fr>]

�ienne Bersac wrote:
> 
> As you know, i completely agree about your project. That would be
> amazing to include OCR features in Gnome for 2.20, just as Abiword
> plugin.
> 
> About the API. It would be nice to provide a simple API that also allow
> advanced tune of the OCR process. That may be done with just a few
> helpers func. See the sound API issue in Gnome : there are no sound in
> Gnome App because it's not easy to add them. Gaim wrote it's own
> "gtk-sound" component in order to easily play sounds. (But no sound is
> play when e-mails are received/send, disc is burn, trash is empty,
> etc.).
> 
> If i was writing Abiword OCR plugin, i would like to be able to send a
> GdkPixbuf and receive text with or without formatting. That's all i can
> tell you.

Thanks �ienne ! ;-)

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