Re: [Sugar-devel] OCR?

2009-08-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
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 :
> 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?
>
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Re: [Sugar-devel] OCR?

2009-08-28 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Edward Cherlin wrote:
> Is there a Free Software OCR engine of adequate quality?

http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

The question is: adequate for what?  (A question likely to be answered
only by testing.)



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[Sugar-devel] OCR?

2009-08-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
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/
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