Dnia 15 Lipca 2013, 1:31 pm, Pn, Nick White napisał(a): > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:38:24PM -0700, Tom Morris wrote: >> That's an interesting racket that the University of Salford has got >> going. >> They got the EU to fund the "research" to develop a closed source app >> which >> they then restrictively license and sell commercially, taking full >> advantage of >> building on open source tools like Tesseract, but not giving anything >> back in >> return. > > Indeed it is.
Not really, at least not to my knowledge. Although tesseract was mentioned in the EU IMPACT project, it was actually used only by a Polish team which made the results available on a free licence, cf. http://dl.psnc.pl/activities/projekty/impact/results/lang-pref/en/ This allowed for immediate reuse, cf. http://poliqarp.wbl.klf.uw.edu.pl/en/IMPACT_GT_1/ University of Salford and other project partners took full advantage of somethin else, namely the commercial FineReader SDK, which makes the resulting tools potentially interesting only for large libraries involved in mass digitisation, cf. http://www.digitisation.eu/ > Thankfully funding bodies (including those run by the > EU) are generally moving away from funding proprietary work, I hope you are right. > which > is so clearly against the public interest compared to collaborative > development of free software. I agree completely. Best regards Janusz -- Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej) Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department) [email protected], [email protected], http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/ -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
