On 15 July 2010 09:45, rthomas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Windows is only one of the platforms that Tesseract supports, that's why. >> >> It's not 'free' - you have to buy Windows to get it and be able to use >> it. Last time I checked, Windows was pretty expensive (not that price >> has anything to do with my not using Windows. It's a truly awful >> operating system). >> > > Initial question was "windows release with support for compressed > tiff's". > On Windows you get the free "Visual C# Express", you unzip the tessnet > wrapper, the tessdata, and you can do OCR (for free) in 7 line of > code. > You can read TIFF, PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF. > The screenshoot you have here > http://www.pixel-technology.com/freeware/tessnet2/demo.png > was done in 120 line of code. >
The number of lines of code is really more a property of the programming language and set of libraries used. Your argument is about as meaningless as this statement: At least I can *use* the software without having to worry about malware crashing my system in the middle of processing it. > Can you do it with your OS? > Show me. > > Tired of people saying Windows is bulshit but don't know it. > Oh but I *do* know Windows, all too well. and I suspect the difference here is that I know a number of operating systems and am therefore in a position to make a comparison. But that's beside the point. Effectively, what I said was "I don't use Windows because it's awful". Not "Don't use Windows, because it's awful" or even "Windows is awful". Quite aside the fact that expressing an opinion as though it were fact is *normal* *human* *behaviour*, it had that extra indicator that it's an opinion. For my needs. In my opinion. From my point of view. If you're incapable of processing that, well, you have bigger problems than your choice of operating system; I don't actually think that is the case, so do yourself a favour and act like it. Another favour you can do yourself is to accept that the people who flock around open source projects tend to generally prefer open source, and therefore prefer open source operating systems. Trying to be a Windows advocate - a rare enough thing in itself - just won't do you any good. If you want to do something *positive*, send a patch to fix issue 304 (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=304) so Windows users can enjoy the benefits of Tesseract 3's new features - which, as well as pretty much all of the formats you mentioned - with autodetection - also includes page segmentation, support for new languages, etc. -- <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.
