Jacob Floyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What if we embedded a FLOSS OCR library in OOo?
If this means that the OOo kit gets another chunk of megabytes bigger: let's be careful. It will only be interesting to a small part of the OOo user community. > This would be great to > say "not only do we export to PDF, but we import TIFFs as text!". Yes, but we'd better do it well. The last time I tried GOCR/JOCR it had a quite high error rate. > As we imbed it we might want to make an API of sorts for OCR to > connect to... Make it easy to 'integrate' OCR software with OOo. AFAIK, several APIs like this exist already. Most (commercial, windows) scanner programs can drive different OCR programs. -- Johan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
