Re: open source OCR; anyone want it?

From: Thomas Boutell (boutell@boutell.com)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 16:32:10 PST

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    On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Brandon Kolbe wrote:

    > I would be interested. Bring it on!!!
    >
    > -Brandon Kolbe
    >
    > Eric Anderholm wrote:
    > >
    > > Greetings:
    > >
    > > I have a functional machine print ocr engine I have built and am
    > > wondering if it would be worth while to open source it and release it to
    > >
    > > the net. It is not a "single font" trained engine but can do multiple
    > > fonts and proportional and is completely trained.
    > >
    > > Before I go to any trouble of packaging it up with a good auto
    > > configure script I was wondering if any one is interested in it and more
    > >
    > > importantly if anyone wants to work on the back end of it. That is the
    > > n-gram dictionary lookup.
    > >
    > > If your interested in it, and/or may be interested on working on the
    > > back end please email eja@altavista.net.

    I am very interested in open source OCR. I'm not sure what an
    n-gram dictionary lookup is; this thing already works, I gather,
    so what needs to be done exactly? I'm a very experienced programmer,
    just not with OCR specifically. 

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Thomas Boutell
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