[Bug-ocrad] Re: Ocrad on Windows

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

address@hidden wrote:
> For this technique to be broadly useful in the SpamBayes
> community, it will need to be available on Windows.  A couple developers
> have compiled ocrad on Windows using cygwin with one small code change
> ("std::fprintf" -> "fprintf").  Can we distribute that executable on the
> SpamBayes SF site (or convince you to do so) so that we can get Windows
> users to test out my new additions?

Of course you may distribute the executable, as long as you also 
distribute the modified source as required by the GPL.

I have never tried ocrad with spam images, but I suppose they are 
created to be seen on a monitor, and perhaps the text size is too small 
for ocrad. Did you try to enlarge images with the --scale option?


> Related to that, is there any interest in making an OCR library which can be
> linked into other applications instead of requiring the program to be run?

Sort answer, no. Ocrad is currently too experimental as to develop a 
consistent library interface based in it.


Best regards,
Antonio.