Re: [Bug-ocrad] 0.18-pre2

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Uwe Dippel wrote:
> I never thought scaling would be of an advantage? Does it do some 
> interpolation? (I read the info pages, but didn't find much.)

Scaling does some interpolation and rounding. It is very useful when 
letters are not big enough.


> Any good reason, why you tried scaling at a factor of 2?

Well, it is the first thing I try when I find small or not well defined 
letters, because many times improves things.


> And still another one: is there a chance to scale with different factors 
> for x and y? I am asking, since we are doing OCR on faxes, and 'normal' 
> at faxes means 204x98 dpi.

Ocrad can't currently scale differently in both axes, and I can't 
remember a case where this could help. But perhaps you could fin one. :)


Regards,
Antonio.