I am hoping to push 3.00 out in the first quarter next year. One issue that I am concerned about (and it is why I intend to be sure 2.04 is solid and includes as many patches as possible) is whether or not to make 3.00 dependent on leptonica. For certain, some of the features will only be available if you have it, but it is likelythat 3.00 will still build and run without it. At some point in the future though that may not be able to continue.
Here are some thoughts, and I would like to get input from the developer/user community on this issue: For leptonica: - Some features will depend on it. To get best performance you will need it. - It could allow simplification of the code, and elimination of the old IMAGE class. - It will allow reading of many more image formats, which a lot of users have requested. - It might be easier if the default windows project files assume that you have leptonica. That would make it easier to build with it, and it would only be a case of downloading it. Against making tesseract dependent on leptonica: - It will require several additional components: leptonica, libtiff, libjpg, libpng, which would bloat the executable, and many (windows) users have refused to even download libtiff. - Installation and build support will become much more effort. (Mostly for windows) If somebody could write a windows installer for it (open source of course), then that would simplify installation a lot for the windows user-only community. Areas where the developer/user community can help: - A collation of all the add-ons (box editors, c#/.net extensions, Java, apps built on top etc) and added to the wiki would be really helpful - A windows installer (see above) would be useful On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Tien Dung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ray, > > There are a lot of sweet features in 3.00 release: thread-safe, patches, > better modular and API ... > > I would like to ask when will the 3.00 version release? > > And how can users and developers like us can help to make it happen sooner > :) > > Best regards, > > Tien Dung > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
