Re: [orca-list] Speech-dispatcher library for C#?

[Ishe Chinyoka <chinyoka consultant gmail com>]

Hi Rastislav,

Also in addition to what Deider is saying, Here are my take on this
subject. I think Open Source works
this way.


* You start with an idea of what you would like to see in a program.
* Then you look for something closer to what you are thinking of.
* Next, you clone the source from Github after forking it.
* You then create a branch, and start experimenting your additions. You
  may do this for as long as it takes you to perfect your code.

After you are satisfied, you can then ask the main developer to
incorporate your changes through a pull request.


Depending with what he or she says, this may be a way to improve the
current project which closely aligns to yours without necessarily
inventing the wheel.

If you and the original developer may not agree on the need to
incorporate your changes, you can then fork the project and develop it
as a separate work.

So you do not have to worry about you taking a month before
contributing. Working with fellow developers is just a matter of working
on the source code and agreeing on the direction the project is to
take.

Otherwise, I think you have got a good start in your ideas and
 your theories. Once you start collaborating with others, you will
see those ideas blooming to benefit the rest of the blind community,
even those who aren't developers but just mathematicians or scientists.

HTH,





Didier Spaier via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> answer inline.
>
> Le 01/08/2020 à 03:11, Rastislav Kiss via orca-list a écrit :
> > Hello,
> > as for the project, I have few very interesting ideas of combining ocr
> > with my own image analysis algorithms, which could result in more or
> > less new ways of using characters recognition for us.
> > The problem is, that I don't know yet, whether they'll really work, as
> > theory is one thing, and practice another. :)
> > I don't even know yet, whether the whole stuff will be researched and
> > developed as one project or as more smaller parts, the former would be
> > more practical, the latter more realistical, as individual parts have
> > varying development times and it would be unpractical to wait with one
> > taking few days to develop for another, which needs a month to find the
> > best possible way and create supporting framework. Especially taking in
> > my inability to keep working on things for longer time. :)
>
> Do you really intend to reinvent tesseract 4? I hope not...
> https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
>
> > Thus a team effort doesn't seem very possible now, but may be an actual
> > thing later, if my ideas will prove themselves and I will want to
> > integrate them tighter with Orca, a help will definitely be appreciated
> > to code it faster.
> >
> > Btw, I had been checking OCRdesktop some time ago. It seems very
> > interesting, but from what I've found, its primarily designed for
> > Archlinux and its forks. Is there a confortable way to run it on Ubuntu
> > mate?
>
> It just a python script...
> You will need a few dependencies listed in SLKBUILD here:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/source/ocrdesktop/
>
> The packages names of the dependencies are for the Slint distribution that
> I maintain.
> I'll let you find the corresponding names for Ubuntu Mate.
>
> Didier
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