Tony> I plan to do this myself at some point, but thought Skip (or
Tony> someone else) might want to beat me to it:
Tony> Google/UNLV have (re)released an open-source* OCR engine, which
Tony> they claim is better than any other open-source OCR engine. So it
Tony> would be interesting to compare the classification with this to
Tony> that with ocrad.
Tony>
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html
Thanks, I'll try to take a look when I get a chance. Alas, the SF link is
currently giving an Internal Server Error message. (Jeez, what are the
chances???)
Tony> * The license is a bit vague, unfortunately. They state it can be
Tony> freely used/distributed for research/development, and that for
Tony> commercial use you have to contact the authors. However, they
Tony> don't cover the middle ground (non-commercial non-research), which
Tony> SpamBayes falls under.
I suppose we ought to contact the authors, just to be on the safe side.
Skip
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