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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
