From: Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: This sucks! OCR in Linux
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:05:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030412210553.GA15282@potpal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005801c30127$5f527e60$77859641@tward1978>
Hi. I wouldn't mind paying either, but I use Debian. As far as I know
there isn't a commercial product available for me.
Kenny
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:11:49PM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> I personally don't mind paying for a product if it is a quality product.
> After all not every programmer can be expected to work free.
> As for OCR there are many good engines floating around such as Fine Reader,
> Care MTX, etc, but they are not free. Either you can purchase them, sign a
> NDA, and release a closed source OCR app, or you can start from scratch and
> take the 4 or 5 years it would take to hopefully get the quality of the pro
> grade OCR applications.
> Once you recognize time and costs of developing an OCR app a good open
> source OCR project would be a huge undertaking without a single return.
>
>
>
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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
` Adam Myrow
` Kenny Hitt [this message]
` Lorenzo Prince
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