We use Tesseract on Mac OS X, so one of our main concerns is portability, and we hope that the Tesseract software will continue to work on all platforms. We like C++ with the standard libraries as the programming language. We would hope that things like C# are not used in the core code base.
The Windows installer and GUIs can be developed as independent projects. We would hope that the chief developer is not burdened with those platform-specific projects, which would be an unnecessary distraction from improving the core functionality of the system. Instead, Tesseract should have a good general API to support GUIs on any platform. We strongly support TIFF image formats and tifflib. We're not opposed to adding support for other formats, but TIFF should not be dropped. Leptonica can be extremely useful in OCR systems. We use the connected component analysis feature for finding blob boundaries. Based on that experience, building Tesseract with Leptonica looks like a good idea. Finally, I believe that the system could benefit from a complete re- write in a future version. The existing code works, but it's showing its age. - Doug Ward --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
