This sucks! OCR in Linux

[Lorenzo Prince]

Well, I wish I could do it, but I am just really starting to learn about
programming, and I know absolutely nothing about how OCR even works.
However, I may be the one to do something about it once I get through
school and learn a lot more about programming, although I fear that won't
be soon enough.

Lorenzo

E Pluribus Unix

Kenny Hitt staggered into view and mumbled:

> Hi.  Are you offering to do it?  One of the important differences
> between Windows and Linux is that something only gets into Linux when someone
> decides to write it.  Several people have said they want OCR in Linux
> but none of us have wanted it enough to write something or improve on
> an existing program.
>
> Please don't misunderstand, I've been using Linux for over 2 years and I
> haven't tried to solve the problem either.  In my case, I wouldn't use
> OCR often enough to make it a priority.  Of course if someone creates a
> good OCR program in Linux, I'll use it.
>
>           Kenny
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:51:44AM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> > Well, IMHO, I believe that having proprietary closed-license software
> > kinda defeats the purpose of using Linux as an open-source sollution.
> > Somebody just needs to step up and make a usable open-source sollution for
> > OCR and a few other things we still need.
> >
> > Lorenzo
> >
> > E Pluribus Unix
>
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