An advantage of making Leptonica a definite dependency, instead of an optional add-on, is that it would enable the deletion of the existing Tesseract IMAGE class, thus providing simplification and one step towards a rewrite. While a full rewrite would be beneficial, it is something that cannot be achieved without a lot of effort, and that would either take a carefully coordinated effort from a large number of people, or a gradual change over a long time. Until I get a large army of very capable volunteers, it will have to be that latter approach.
BTW, I created an add-ons page in the wiki, and I see there is one comment there already, If you have an add-on, please add a comment there, and I, or one of the other developers will gather them up and put them into the page. Ray. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:29 PM, dsward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
