On 12 July 2010 15:28, rogerdpack <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. Small suggestion on installation verbiage: > > (XP, 2.04) > > Currently it is a bit confusing to download Tesserat v 2.0.4 and then > install a language pack that reads 2.0.1 (it's hard to find in the > long list, too--for example I downloaded the language pack for 2.0.0 > by mistake). > > A couple of suggestions, therefore: > One option: change verbiage from > > tesseract-2.01.<lang>.tar.gz contains the language data files for > <lang>. You need at least one of these or tesseract will not work. > > to > > tesseract-2.01.<lang>.tar.gz contains the language data files for > <lang>. You need at least one of these or tesseract will not work. > Note that this is labeled as v2.01 not v2.04 >
That's a bit redundant, don't you think? I understand where the confusion crept in, but I don't have a better suggestion, and yours is not, IMO, any less confusing. Care to try again? > Second option: bundle the english charset. Hope that's not too rude > to suggest. > I don't think this is one of those projects where you'll be flamed for being anglo-centric, but no, not gonna do that. This raises another issue - thanks - which merits its own topic, I think. > Third option (my preferred): re-release a new language data file per > version. Then it makes more sense to the newbie that you have to > download them concurrently. Currently it feels like an odd > requirement to cherry pick a download from a previous release. > Ugh, no. It's absolutely senseless to release the exact same files multiple times just to cater for people who can't grasp that the software and its data have independent versions. Thanks for the suggestions. I may not agree with them, but I appreciate that you tried. I think making the installation instructions a little more clear is the best way to go. -- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you. -- 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.
