Abbyy could distribute the free version of their software with a license that allows it to be redistributed with Sugar, or more precisely whatever activity uses it. But that would allow people to make full-featured clones of Abbyy's software, so I doubt it.
2009/8/28 Edward Cherlin <[email protected]>: > I was at a presentation last week of Abbyy OCR software, which works > on pictures taken by mobile phone cameras in more than 100 languages. > The company wants to give away software (though not source code) in > was that will get the company good publicity. So we are talking about > using their software with the XO camera to read signs or full pages in > books. Also whether we can add languages. > > This would mean making the OCR engine a separate download, the way we > handle Adobe Flash. > > So is this likely to be worth the effort? > > Is there a Free Software OCR engine of adequate quality? > > Any other questions? > > -- > Edward Mokurai Cherlin > Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name, and > Children are > my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://earthtreasury.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
