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 Remě was thinking :-)
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
Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se)
Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
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