On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:42:30PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ivo De Decker writes ("Re: Bug#682100: gscan2pdf Recommends cuneiform which
> is in non-free"):
> > Gscan2pdf is used to scan documents and make pdf's from them. If you
> > just want to have a scan of the image, it works perfectly without
> > ocr. I often use it that way. I hadn't even noticed that ocr was an
> > option, so I wouldn't say that using it without ocr is unusual.
>
> In that case, the dependency relationship should be Suggests, not
> Recommends. In the words of the manual, Recommends is to be used when
> the packages would be found together in `all but unusual' situations.
Mhh... I'd vote it's pretty usual to OCR stuff you have scanned, if it
is text (and you want to convert it to a PDF -- if you wanted TIFF, you
would not use gscan2pdf in the first place).
Just my 0.02€
Evgeni
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