[Sugar-devel] OCR?

[Lucian Branescu]

Abbyy could distribute the free version of their software with a
license that allows it to be redistributed with Sugar, or more
precisely whatever activity uses it. But that would allow people to
make full-featured clones of Abbyy's software, so I doubt it.

2009/8/28 Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>:
> I was at a presentation last week of Abbyy OCR software, which works
> on pictures taken by mobile phone cameras in more than 100 languages.
> The company wants to give away software (though not source code) in
> was that will get the company good publicity. So we are talking about
> using their software with the XO camera to read signs or full pages in
> books. Also whether we can add languages.
>
> This would mean making the OCR engine a separate download, the way we
> handle Adobe Flash.
>
> So is this likely to be worth the effort?
>
> Is there a Free Software OCR engine of adequate quality?
>
> Any other questions?
>
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