[Bug-ocrad] Re: Ocrad on Windows

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    Antonio> 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?

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

Cool.  Once we're set up I'll send you a pointer as a courtesy.  We have no
intention of forking Ocrad, we just want to make it available so Windows
users can help us test recent changes to SpamBayes' scoring.

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

So far I've only run it with no command line args.  A quick check with one
image I have laying about suggests that scaling up by two or three should
help recognition a bit.  I'll do some more tests with it.  Thanks for the
suggestion.

    >> 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?

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

Not a problem.  We're in the early stages as well of our endeavour as well.

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