Re: open source OCR; anyone want it?

From: Adrian Perez Jorge (adrianpj@easynews.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 05:43:44 PST

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    >From: Bill Thorson <thorson@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu>
    >To: "sane-devel@mostang.com" <sane-devel@mostang.com>
    >Subject: Re: open source OCR; anyone want it?
    >Reply-To: sane-devel@mostang.com
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    >On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, 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
    >
    >If I remember correctly, a couple of years ago or so the GNU people put out a
    >request for someone to begin an OCR project. If no one ever did you may want
    >to talk to them and if someone did there may be a good opportunity for
    >collaboration. Either way I think this is a great project and highly needed
    >in the open software ranks.
    >

    Maybe you are talking about this:

          http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/ocr/

    Greets,

    Adrian Perez Jorge
    <adrianpj@easynews.com>

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