2012/6/7 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> > On 2012-06-07 13:37, Andrea Zanni wrote: > >> Well, that would be awesome, Gerard. >> OCR could be a critic feature of Wikisource (for example), the best >> softwares are all commercial (eg. ABBYY Finereader) >> and they cost a LOT. It would be very useful to understand what IMPACT >> does and where it is going. >> Moreover, Wikisource can be a testbed directly for OCR softwares, >> (because we have human proofreaders :-), and I think this is waht Remì >> was thinking :-) >> > > It's great if Gerard can visit the meeting. I don't agree that > the normal, commercial version of Finereader costs "a lot". If it > did, free OCR software would have a fair chance, but Finereader > is actually affordable, € 130 for a single person license. Most > digital cameras cost more than that. >
yes, you're quite right, but for "enterprise" version FR costs a lot more: I remember I contacted them some months ago for Wikisource (to replace our OCR engine) but due to lack of interest (of the community, and then mine) and other issues I did not proceed with the discussion. i still have the contact of the European salesman, though. Aubrey > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l> >
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