> The mention of "regression test" reminds me of something; I'd
> like to see a test backend that doesn't actually do anything, but has
> every possible combination of option type and unit and constraint, in
> order to allow testing that frontends can handle every possible
> option.
The PNM backend is intended for exactly this. Well it has a function, too
(reading PNMs), but this is only to be able to test the data-transfer
process, too.
> been tested on the PNM and qcam backends. Unfortunately, I won't get
> around to writing this test backend for a while.
You could extend the PNM backend with some further silly options (gamma-mapping
maybe ?).
> BTW, there's someone named Stuart Inglis who's working on a free OCR program;
> the Web page is at http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~singlis/ocr/ .
Oh - nice. Should have a look at it.
> Currently he has a set of command-line programs which take PBM files and
> process them, but no higher-level interface.
Actually this is nice for batch-processing. A GUI should only be needed
if the system needs help, e.g. in page-separation.
I'd really appreciate a good OCR program for Linux.
CU,Andy
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