Re: Fwd: others?Fwd: Open Source OCR

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:26 -0400, David Poehlman wrote:
>   
> > there is also GOCR and Ocrad
> >
> > which are open source.
> >
> >     
> I haven't tested any of those, but at least as it sounded from the
> description of GOcr, it didn't support columns nor fonts. I don't know
> how this affects for example the recognition of text documents and a11y
> and so on, but it doesn't sound ... ahem good. Please correct me if i'm
> wrong somewhere. and a question, is there any way to control OcrAD from
> within Gnome other than from a terminal?
>   
The ocr engine is the important thing.  The gocr engine, at least, has 
been described as not sufficiently powerful for our needs - whereas the 
tesserect engine seems to be pretty good.

If the engine is good, and freely licensed, then adding things like 
column support is not that difficult (compared to writing a new/better 
engine from scratch).  While there may be some debate about the 
GPL-compatibility of the Apache license, it looks to be 'Debian-free' to 
me.  There is some non-free code that needs to be removed, as Luke 
noted, but it seems not to be used at all in the existing tarball, it's 
just leftover vestigial code.

regards

Bill

> /Krister
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