Re: [orca-list] The new Hypra website

[chrys87 <chrys87 web de>]

Howdy Devin,

glad to hear that you like it :) and respect to the fact that you manage 
it to play video games with that lol. OCRdesktop uses tesseract (so a 
free  OCR engine). for sure it could been improved but in fact its a 
really active project. they currently make some progress via OpenCL 
possible. also the layout detection got improved. i think its really 
more practical to improve that great software before start a 1001 
unfinished OCR solution
if the results sometimes been to bad casue by bad contrast you can play 
with some contrast options of ocrdestkop see here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ocrdesktop#OCR_Options

cheers chrys


Am 27.08.2016 um 17:17 schrieb Devin Prater:
> You know, I was using OcrDesktop for a few things, like video game 
> screens, youtube videos, and I'm not sure what OCR engine it uses,but 
> gosh it works amazingly! Is there any reason to use non-free engines 
> anyways?
>
>
> On 08/26/2016 09:37 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > I agree with burt. I'm a lot more inclined to use and promote free 
> > and open source software, and the idea of a "blindness" company turns 
> > my stomach. Not that I'm saying hypra is one, just that I've had such 
> > bad experiences with companies like humanware, freedom scientific, 
> > etc that publically say they're trying to make the lives of their 
> > customers better when all they're actually doing is trying to turn a 
> > profit at our expense. If that weren't true, they'd open source this 
> > stuff. Make it royalty free, so that anyone, not just windows and 
> > apple and the popular options, can benefit. They'd make their 
> > products hardware specs and schematics open, and they'd release open 
> > hardware designs for things like braille displays, braille keyboards, 
> > and the like. Before I get jumped on for not being supportive of 
> > proprietary options, I'm not against them exactly, but I am against 
> > the expectation that you should use them. If a person has to use 
> > windows to do their job or because there is no good linux or open 
> > source alternative for some thing they want to do, that's one thing, 
> > and can't be helped. But to actively discourage use of the open 
> > source alternatives just because you don't use them, that's not ok 
> > with me and will very quickly enrage me. I'm going into rant mode so 
> > I'll shut up. Support this non free ocr engine if you must, but try 
> > your best to either get that engine open sourced or improve the open 
> > source ones so that they're as good as or better than this nonfree 
> > engine. This goes for synthesizers such as espeak as well. If we 
> > cling to the nonfree options because they're easier and never put the 
> > work into improving the open source stuff, it's not going to improve 
> > itself.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Kendell Clark
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08/26/2016 09:24 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > > The problem is for now.
> > > I agree that as much as is practical we should always base work on 
> > > FOS products and services, software, and systems, but some people 
> > > must have something
> > > that works well enough for them today, not in a month, much less in 
> > > 6 months or a couple of years, or when it happens, and someone must 
> > > make the effort to
> > > help them as well.
> > > Some people can choose to not take on a project or job if it forces 
> > > them to use non-free stuph, but others can not reasonably make that 
> > > choice, or must use
> > > something non-free for now so that they become economically and or 
> > > professionally stable enough to make other decisions in the future.
> > > I am not trying to get in to a debate, nor say that there is a right 
> > > or better way to live and or compute that fits all users and 
> > > situations, just saying
> > > that I aplaud the project for making a nonfree OCR engine available 
> > > for those who need it.
> > > I think the people involved will choose FOS whenever possible from 
> > > what little I know of them and their values and wishes, and for the 
> > > record that is what
> > > I would most like to see, and I will support and promote the project 
> > > more if that is the case.
> > > Anyway, I say thank you for your work  with the Hypra Project, and 
> > > for organizing your team to make Linux computing more accessible for 
> > > blind and low
> > > vision folks.
> >
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