2012/6/7 Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se
On 2012-06-07 13:37, Andrea Zanni wrote:
Well, that would be awesome, Gerard. OCR could be a critic feature of Wikisource (for example), the best softwares are all commercial (eg. ABBYY Finereader) and they cost a LOT. It would be very useful to understand what IMPACT does and where it is going. Moreover, Wikisource can be a testbed directly for OCR softwares, (because we have human proofreaders :-), and I think this is waht Remì was thinking :-)
It's great if Gerard can visit the meeting. I don't agree that the normal, commercial version of Finereader costs "a lot". If it did, free OCR software would have a fair chance, but Finereader is actually affordable, € 130 for a single person license. Most digital cameras cost more than that.
yes, you're quite right, but for "enterprise" version FR costs a lot more: I remember I contacted them some months ago for Wikisource (to replace our OCR engine) but due to lack of interest (of the community, and then mine) and other issues I did not proceed with the discussion. i still have the contact of the European salesman, though.
Aubrey
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