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

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