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 > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
