Hi. I wouldn't mind paying either, but I use Debian. As far as I know there isn't a commercial product available for me. Kenny On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:11:49PM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote: > I personally don't mind paying for a product if it is a quality product. > After all not every programmer can be expected to work free. > As for OCR there are many good engines floating around such as Fine Reader, > Care MTX, etc, but they are not free. Either you can purchase them, sign a > NDA, and release a closed source OCR app, or you can start from scratch and > take the 4 or 5 years it would take to hopefully get the quality of the pro > grade OCR applications. > Once you recognize time and costs of developing an OCR app a good open > source OCR project would be a huge undertaking without a single return. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >