Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-06-10 Thread zdenko podobny
stributions (admittedly just Gentoo so far) are reluctant to > use > > > > > > > these changes without them being accepted upstream. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I sympathize with your position. For o

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-06-09 Thread Elmer Fittery
; > > > > > > > > > I sympathize with your position. For over a year, I have been > > > > > maintaining a local branch tracking the tesseract-ocr svn trunk with > > > > > some patches applied that do pretty much the same thing you'r

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-06-09 Thread Zdenko Podobný
t;>>> maintaining a local branch tracking the tesseract-ocr svn trunk with >>>> some patches applied that do pretty much the same thing you're >>>> describing, for some personal projects. I've also been building my >>>> own .debs for Ubuntu for

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-25 Thread Ray Smith
OK, you have the job. I tidied up the tesseract-dev group too. Ray. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > On 25 May 2010 05:44, Ray Smith wrote: > > I would be very happy for someone to take over maintenance of the > autotools > > part of tesseract. Even better if a team of yo

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-25 Thread Arno Teigseth
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 11:20 +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > On 25 May 2010 07:03, Sriranga(77yrsold) > wrote: > > please see comments of Ray at > > https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0&shva=1#inbox/128922bd8af54053 > > > > Hi. > > I remember that this isn't the first time you've sent a link that's

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-25 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 25 May 2010 05:44, Ray Smith wrote: > I would be very happy for someone to take over maintenance of the autotools > part of tesseract. Even better if a team of you can do it... I don't get > much time to deal with that, and it doesn't get much priority, since we have > our own build system, and

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-25 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 25 May 2010 11:38, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > Thanks. Jimmy, > Due to laziness, posted thro' email !! > :) -- jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. Also not-so-deep inside you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-oc

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-25 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
Thanks. Jimmy, Due to laziness, posted thro' email !! With regards, -sriranga(77yrsold) On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > On 25 May 2010 11:27, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > > please see inline reply below > > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Jimmy O'Regan > wrote: > >

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-25 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 25 May 2010 11:27, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > please see inline reply below > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: >> >> On 25 May 2010 07:03, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: >> > please see comments of Ray at >> > https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0&shva=1#inbox/128922bd8af540

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-25 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
please see inline reply below On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > On 25 May 2010 07:03, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > > please see comments of Ray at > > https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0&shva=1#inbox/128922bd8af54053 > > > > Hi. > > I remember that this isn't the first tim

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-25 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 25 May 2010 07:03, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > please see comments of Ray at > https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0&shva=1#inbox/128922bd8af54053 > Hi. I remember that this isn't the first time you've sent a link that's specific to your own e-mail account, so The best way to get a public

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-25 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 25 May 2010 04:04, Arno Teigseth wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 03:52 +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: >> Y'know, I don't recall seeing in this exchange anything along the >> lines of 'I asked for commit access but was refused/got no >> answer/etc.' > > Hehe well no I didn't ask. I don't know exactl

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-24 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
please see comments of Ray at https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0&shva=1#inbox/128922bd8af54053 On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Arno Teigseth wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 03:52 +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > > Y'know, I don't recall seeing in this exchange anything along the > > lines of 'I a

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-24 Thread Ray Smith
x27;re >>> describing, for some personal projects. I've also been building my >>> own .debs for Ubuntu for easy deployment in some projects I'm working >>> on. >>> >> i'm still very enthusiast with this project of forking Tesseract. But as i &

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-24 Thread Arno Teigseth
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 03:52 +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > Y'know, I don't recall seeing in this exchange anything along the > lines of 'I asked for commit access but was refused/got no > answer/etc.' Hehe well no I didn't ask. I don't know exactly how additions and commits are related - do you sug

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-24 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 25 May 2010 03:04, Arno Teigseth wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 16:41 +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote: > >> Because until a few days ago, development had ground to a halt. There >> had been no new commits since August (I think) and not even any >> communication from the lead maintainer. It's nice

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-24 Thread Arno Teigseth
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 16:41 +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote: > Because until a few days ago, development had ground to a halt. There > had been no new commits since August (I think) and not even any > communication from the lead maintainer. It's nice to see that there > have some new commits but some

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-24 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:32 -0500 Arno Teigseth wrote: > I'm haven't been on this list for very long, but could someone tell me > why a fork is needed? Is there a difference in goals? Why can't the > main project be hacked instead of forking? Because until a few days ago, development had ground

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-24 Thread Arno Teigseth
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 01:17 -0700, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > However, i plan to be attacking the "big deal" very soon... In this regard, > > i've created the "TessReact" project on google code > > here:http://code.google.com/p/tessreact > > Feel free to help me, it's all the same (Including lice

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-21 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
sonal projects. I've also been building my own .debs for Ubuntu for easy deployment in some projects I'm working on. i'm still very enthusiast with this project of forking Tesseract. But as i said before, i won't do it alone, and i had not hear about you guys. What amount of t

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-21 Thread MARTIN Pierre
ng, for some personal projects. I've also been building my > own .debs for Ubuntu for easy deployment in some projects I'm working > on. i'm still very enthusiast with this project of forking Tesseract. But as i said before, i won't do it alone, and i had not hear about you g

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-13 Thread Devin Kennedy
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:13 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > I have created new autotools files so that Tesseract can be built as > shared libraries (using libtool), which would allow other projects to > link against it much more easily. Unfortunately, the Linux > distributions (admittedly just Gento

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-13 Thread Tom Morris
On Apr 12, 10:31 pm, MARTIN Pierre wrote: > i've been making some very small changes to the Tesseract project. Most of > them are only related to the way things are organized (Visual studio project, > etc). > > However, i plan to be attacking the "big deal" very soon... In this regard, > i've

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-13 Thread James Le Cuirot
Gah sorry for the spam there. After waiting a day, I figured my messages weren't getting through. Then the damn thing exploded. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to tesseract-...@googlegroups.com.

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-13 Thread James Le Cuirot
> However, i plan to be attacking the "big deal" very soon... In this regard, > i've created the "TessReact" project on google code > here:http://code.google.com/p/tessreact > Feel free to help me, it's all the same (Including license), and i'll be > commiting tomorrow the old svn319 as the firs

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-13 Thread James Le Cuirot
> However, i plan to be attacking the "big deal" very soon... In this regard, > i've created the "TessReact" project on google code > here:http://code.google.com/p/tessreact > Feel free to help me, it's all the same (Including license), and i'll be > commiting tomorrow the old svn319 as the firs

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-13 Thread James Le Cuirot
> However, i plan to be attacking the "big deal" very soon... In this regard, > i've created the "TessReact" project on google code > here:http://code.google.com/p/tessreact > Feel free to help me, it's all the same (Including license), and i'll be > commiting tomorrow the old svn319 as the firs

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-05-13 Thread James Le Cuirot
> However, i plan to be attacking the "big deal" very soon... In this > regard, i've created the "TessReact" project on google code here: > http://code.google.com/p/tessreact > Feel free to help me, it's all the same (Including license), and i'll > be commiting tomorrow the old svn319 as the first

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-04-13 Thread Tamal
I am interested about building an OCR tool for my native language which is Bangla (Bengali). Tesser-act seems to be a good OCR tool and I also like the fact that this is open sourced under Apache license. In recent times, I have mostly worked with C# and Java and little bit of Python. But I can cod

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-04-13 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 13 April 2010 10:37, MARTIN Pierre wrote: >> Well, there are a lot of patches sitting in the bugtracker that should >> be checked for bitrot > That's a good starting point. However, my aim for now is really to clean > everything up, and edventually make changes to the code, but not immediatell

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-04-13 Thread MARTIN Pierre
> Well, there are a lot of patches sitting in the bugtracker that should > be checked for bitrot That's a good starting point. However, my aim for now is really to clean everything up, and edventually make changes to the code, but not immediatelly. > I guess by pointing that out, I've just volunt

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-04-13 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 13 April 2010 03:31, MARTIN Pierre wrote: > Hello, > > i've been making some very small changes to the Tesseract project. Most of > them are only related to the way things are organized (Visual studio project, > etc). > > However, i plan to be attacking the "big deal" very soon... In this reg

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-04-13 Thread Eugene Reimer
Hello, I'm already too busy with too many projects, so I won't be able to contribute much. However I am interested in OCR, especially in getting a good open-source OCR tool. I used to be a reasonably competent C programmer, but retired long ago, missed out on C++, and prefer easier languages

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-04-13 Thread MARTIN Pierre
> Shoudl you need an java help, compiling on embedded linux or > doc help then let me know and I'd be willing to help out. Very good, thanks. Anyone else ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send ema

Re: Forking tesseract.

2010-04-13 Thread Neil Benn
Hello, Shoudl you need an java help, compiling on embedded linux or doc help then let me know and I'd be willing to help out. Cheers, Neil On 13 April 2010 04:31, MARTIN Pierre wrote: > Hello, > > i've been making some very small changes to the Tesseract project. Most of > them are

Forking tesseract.

2010-04-12 Thread MARTIN Pierre
Hello, i've been making some very small changes to the Tesseract project. Most of them are only related to the way things are organized (Visual studio project, etc). However, i plan to be attacking the "big deal" very soon... In this regard, i've created the "TessReact" project on google code h