On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Miles O'Neal wrote: > Stephen J Baker said... > > |Hmmmm "GIMP" - GNU Image *Manipulation* Program? Maybe we need > |a name change if general manipulation of images is not a part of > |GIMP's charter. > > Analysis and manipulation aren't necessarily > the same thing. I agree - but if you allow the possibility of batch mode image manipulation (and I think you should), then batch mode analysis is just a matter of what plugins you run...one that counts the number of colours and prints them out - or even one that does OCR - would certainly be possible in such a system. > Analysis such as the original > poster asked would be a huge, new area. It would be if the GIMP team undertook to write the plugins to do a wide range of interesting analyses - but I don't think it's such a big deal to make it *possible* to write such plugins and run them in batch mode - then you can let the bazaar do the actual work of writing them *if* there are enough interested people to do it. > Not that it would be a bad one. There's certainly > no reason folks can't write plug-ins for these > things (although the font recognition would be > hairy - has anyone done that anywhere?) And, at > least in the near term, I'd expect some of the > functionality to be quite limited. > > How well does OCR software work against images? What else would it work on? ---- Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail) L3Com/Link Simulation & Training (817)619-2466 (Fax) Work: sjbaker@xxxxxxxx http://www.link.com Home: sjbaker1@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.sjbaker.org
