> Hi Martin, Hello Sven, by the way, my first name is Pierre ;) > 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. Are there any news from Ray saying this or the opposite?
> This is something that is very useful to Google In what way? Is such a program *really* used by Google for recognition, knowing it's containing so much memleaks for example? > , 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. That's good news, it would mean Tess has something OCRopus doesn't, which would make it a priority for allocating resources dedicated to it's maintenance... But come on... How hard would it be for OCRopus to support multi charsets? Not much i think. > 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. i understand your point here, but then why "closing" this aspect of the collaboration? i find myself already improving the sources of Tesseract, this over less than 2 days. i'm no Ph.d, i'm no engeeneer, i'm just a really good C / C++ developer with 11 years of experience, which is clearly what Tess would miss here: clean and modular OO re-modeling. But that's really not a one-man's work, it's a team work, which is totally avoided by this "closed" state of Tesseract. Now, let's say i have the real and hopefull wish of making Tesseract better, or at least a fork of Tesseract, allowing it to be Apache 2 licensed too. Who would be able to contribute to that ambition? Are there many good mathematician around in this list, or just end-users "waiting" for new versions? Who would like to team up with us? Again, thanks a lot for your time, this project needs more of it. Human time. 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.
