Hello Fuad and thank you for your note, > From my experience with Tess: you will spend lots of time trying to > understand the way it works to be able to contribute, and after that you'll > figure out that it's impossible to do it! The code is far away from being > organized and it lacks comments as you noticed. No one knows how Tess > internally works except the main developer, Ray Smith, who I believe > abandoned the whole thing, he has no activity in the last months. Ray's paper > describing Tess introduces the way Tess works but it's of no use when it > comes to linking the info in the paper and the code. Some people from OCRopus > succeeded in using Tess classifiers in their project, but they left it and > built their own classifier according to [link], which tells that no one is > working on Tess code anymore. Based on that, I suggest you save your effort > for a better project like OCRopus. It's really too bad, Tesseract looks so interesting. Is there any reason why Ray SMITH stopped contributing to the project? i've been reading there and here, and i'm really wondering... Why would Google first sponsor a project, and then let it die, in despite of the future it could have had? My guess is that Google is obviously forking the code internally, and will probably use some contributions originally made by Ray, in addition to private contributions. i don't see any other reason for Google "officially" sponsoring a project which sounds dead to me.
Even if off topic, i think people at this mailing list will have time to answer those two questions, since the "flow" of questions about Tesseract tends to always get the same "no contributor" answer": about OCRopus, is it crossplatform? Is it useable in a commercial way? Thanks a lot, Very very disapointed and sad Pierre. -- 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.
