Jacob Floyd wrote: > Another possibility: > What if we embedded a FLOSS OCR library in OOo? This would be great to > say "not only do we export to PDF, but we import TIFFs as text!". > To this end I've looked up GOCR/JOCR and I think this could be easily > integrated with OpenOffice.org. Check out http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ > 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. Note, > this is definately too late to get this included in 2.0 (I think. > That'd be great if it was easy enough to do though... I wish I had > more time)
We better should somebody who creates an OOo AddOn that uses a FLOSS OCR library and the OOo API to build up a document from a graphic (or a scanner). This saves the developers to write the OOo file format (using the API might be easier) and prevents the "core" OOo from getting bigger. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
