Re: ocr and linux

[lark@world.std.com (Lar Kaufman)]

I have experimented with Xocr without success myself.  There's a lot of
work represented there, but it seems to have been abandoned before it
was properly functional.

I recently sent email to the author of wocar, a freeware ocr package for
Windows 95/NT that is distributed as binary executables.  I suggested 
porting to linux, perhaps utilizing some existing utilities to facilitate
the port (with or without X).  I got a courteous reply that it was possible,
but not an objective of the author.

I've been thinking that perhaps we could get some blinux developers to
volunteer to develop a Linux port of wocar, perhaps under some non-disclosure
agreement if that is a concern of the developer.  Are there some programmers
on the list interested in this?  It's a critical "missing piece" in putting
together a complete freely distributable adaptive access package for 
electronic media...

 -lar
"As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence 
to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content 
of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas 
than to encourage it...." -- _Reno v ACLU_ 1997, U.S. Supreme Court

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