Re: Running an external JBIG2 encoder if one exists

2018-05-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, Thank you both for your answers. On Fri, May 25 2018, Daniel Hakimi wrote: > That said, nobody can sue you over an expired patent, so it sounds > like you shouldn't be particularly worried about those. I should have said: upstream pointed out that there may be non-US patents that have

Re: Running an external JBIG2 encoder if one exists

2018-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Running an external JBIG2 encoder if one exists"): > An upcoming release of OCRmyPDF, which I maintain in Debian, will call > jbig2 if it can be found on PATH, or gracefully degrade. On Debian, > this won't do anything, since we don't have that package. > > I don't have any

Running an external JBIG2 encoder if one exists

2018-05-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, An upcoming release of OCRmyPDF, which I maintain in Debian, will call jbig2 if it can be found on PATH, or gracefully degrade. On Debian, this won't do anything, since we don't have that package. I don't have any trained intuitions about patent law, but I assume that the fact that