Re: Open Source OCR

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:21:17AM EST, Bill Haneman wrote:
>   
> > Hi Folks:
> >
> > I just downloaded, built, and tested this OCR engine.
> >
> > It is really pretty good, and it was very easy to build.  At the moment 
> > it is a bit limited (requires TIFF format, 8 bit depth, and doesn't 
> > understand columns etc.) but the limitations don't seem to be in the 
> > engine, only in the bells and whistles.
> >     
>
> As far as I understand it, part of the source is not actually open 
> source, so it can't be packaged for distribution afaik.
>   
The non-open-source part is no longer actually used, it's just dead code 
(according to docs).  The "aspirin/MIGRAINE" directory is the one that 
contains this no-longer-used, non-free code, I am told.

So it can be stripped out and the result redistributed at will.

Bill

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