Hi Martin, While I agree to some extent with Fuad that there have not been many updates from Ray Smith, it is not safe to assume that he has abandoned the project. This is something that is very useful to Google, and I believe that they are doing their usual take on open source development -- making an internal version before releasing it to the public, then doing more internal development and releasing that. OCRopus clearly done in a more open fashion, but support for multiple character sets is likely to be provided by Tesseract.
There are indications that the code is improving and stabilizing and that new features are developing, even though it is at a scale of a year or two rather than a few months. This is a very old program in software years and it is wise that they are cleaning up the API slowly so as to maintain stability. --Sven On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Fuad Jamour <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin, > 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. > Good luck.. > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:50 PM, MARTIN Pierre <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Srianga, >> >> this website viz >> http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TesseractProjects may help you. >> >> Thanks, i've been there already... There is the "what is needed", but >> there is no "how to commit, how to get RW in a SVN branch, how to etc". >> Anyone about that? >> Is there a maintainer reading this ML? Or a contributor? >> Thanks again, >> 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. > > -- > 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. > -- ``All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. >From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.” -- 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.
