From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978@earthlink.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: This sucks! OCR in Linux
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 21:17:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001401c3015a$750126c0$de849641@tward1978> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030412192405.GA12816@dalek.ddts.net>
What I meant was that if you wanted to make a living off the software it's
dificult to come up with an open source solution which gives back a cash
return. I love Linux, and find it far superior to windows.
The problem comes in if you want to use an already working OCR engine that
costs big bucks to use, then the software winds up being comercial. If you
take the open source, free software route, which would be nice then
development time is going to take a long while to get up to the quality of a
comercial product.
Another issue is many scanner manufacturers refuse to release driver info
under open source licenses. Which either puts you in a situation of figuring
out how it works, or you wind up not supporting it.
Comercial verses open source is a huge conflict, and open source can be
great if everyone cooperates. If people don't cooperate development can be
frustrating.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
This sucks! Adam Myrow
` Thomas D. Ward
` Igor Gueths
` Lorenzo Prince
` This sucks! OCR in Linux Kenny Hitt
` Thomas D. Ward
` Buddy Brannan
` Thomas D. Ward [this message]
` Adam Myrow
` Kenny Hitt
` Lorenzo Prince
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