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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 23 03:31:11 -0800 2005 ------- >Grammar Checking It is nice to know, that development for Grammar checker has started at last. OOo website says (at some places) that grammar checking is a _Wish_ project and will not be initiated any time soon. Since development has started it _will_ be available sooner or later. Thanks :-). >Translation from one language to another It should be construed as _Computer Assisted Translation Tools_ Please visit http://www.google.com/ . A _Language Tools_ link is there. Follow it. A page will give options for Text Translations (As much as 18 !) e.g. English To German and vice versa. It even has a feature to translate web pages by typing/pasting their URLs. Although Google is a commercial organization but this service is totally non-commercial (at least as of now). Now what is there in it, for an office suit? M$ Office ;-) provides same kind of functionality built directly into it. Can users of OOo have the same functionality? >Optical character recognition Here are some of the Tools - Clara OCR (GPL) Ocrad - OCR program based on feature extraction (GPL) >Hand writing recognition An extension of OCR. So it needs to be developed by extending OCR. (No idea for readily available FLOSS). >Speech recognition gnome-speech (LGPL v2orlater) - API for producing text-to-speech output as well as _speech input_. (Developers Marc Mulcahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others). >This is _hard_, very non-trivial! What do you think development of an Enterprise Class operating system (Linux) or a High Quality Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) or a Robust Web server (Apache) (or climbing to the Mount Everest or Landing at the Lunar Surface) Trivial tasks? But still Humans _have_ done it ! :-) Development of an OS as large as 55,000,000 LOCs (Debian 2.2) is really hard, but did it deter people from around the world, from developing it? [In case if you are more curious about sizes of the open source softwares then please have a look at the paper _Counting potatoes: The size of Debian 2.2_ at the URL http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/counting-potatoes.html ] >few suggestions (1) hardness or triviality should not be the criteria for innovation or doing something useful. Innovation is what made MS OR GM OR GE such a phenomenal success. (2) Please have a look at http://www.gnu.org/. You may find many technologies which _can_ be integrated in OOo. (3) If concepts discussed above can not be integrated with OOo, then it is OK. Future versions of OSs _will_ provide them anyway. :-) Good Luck and Good Wishes always from an OpenOffice.org Admirer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
