On 12 July 2010 16:44, rogerdpack <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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? > > How about: >> > tesseract-2.01.<lang>.tar.gz (Note that this is from a previous release) >> > contains the language data files for >
See my explanation of the versions below; I think I'll just add that explanation, unless you want to tidy or tweak it. > >> 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. > > I'm pretty sure you didn't mean that as inflammatory. Hehehe. Sorry, consider it an accidental trolling. > Maybe rename them to not be tied with a specific version, then? Well, no; they have their own version. The major version is tied to the version of tesseract, the minor version is the version of the language package. > It > seems that those files are meant for more than just v2.01 releases... > Here's another suggestion: make the english (or all) training data as > featured. Then it will be apparent that the downloads are still > applicable. Good call; I'll do that. -- <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.
