On 12 July 2010 19:49, rogerdpack <[email protected]> wrote: > I assume there's some type of legal difficulty to not doing this? It
I guess that you're referring to LZW-compressed tiff files, and the patent issues around LZW? The patent applies to compression, so it only affects the writing of compressed TIFFs, so it's not really a problem. In any case, I thought that patent had expired, no? Tesseract's ability to read TIFF files comes from libtiff, either directly or indirectly (via Leptonica in Tesseract 3), so it depends primarily on how libtiff was configured. Beyond that, I don't know. It's not exactly a hot topic - yours is the first email I've seen about it. > would be quite convenient to have easy access to a windows build that > worked with compressed tiffs--or is the current downloadable supposed > to be that way? You can try getting an LZW-enabled libtiff here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tiff-lzw.htm and replace the dll in tesseract with that, but I've never tried, so I can't say for sure if it'll work. -- <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.
