Evgeni Golov writes ("Bug#682100: gscan2pdf Recommends cuneiform which is in
non-free"):
> the OCR feature is purely optional and thus gscan2pdf should work fine
> w/o any ocr backend.
Thanks for responding.
> Also, gscan2pdf Rcommends "gocr, tesseract-ocr, cuneiform", which all
> are OCR tools and gocr and tesseract being in main.
I hadn't spotted this. Surely this should have `|' indicating
alternative possibilities rather than `,' indicating that all of the
options are required ?
How well does gscan2pdf work without ocr software ? Would you say it
should be used with ocr software in all but unusual situations ?
> From this I think cuneiform can be perfectly moved to Suggests.
Perhaps we need a virtual package for ocr software, but I guess it's
too late for wheezy.
Ian.
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