Re: start of SIRAGI project

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> [1] http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/siragi/

I don't want to be a bastard, but I really think things like tiff
handling do not belong to an OCR project.  In fact, I belove
an Arabic OCR application is out of place by definition too, the
same for an Arabic editor, an Arabic spell-checker, etc.

This is 2005 now, our editors (gedit) support Arabic, our
spell-cheker (aspell) can easily support arabic, given enough
interest from a working man, and any support for Arabic OCR
belongs to an OCR project like GOCR IMHO.  Although the
algorithms may be quite different, but there's a lot of code that
is shared between any two OCR application.  GOCR is actively
developed (released 0.40 last month), and three years old now.

  http://jocr.sf.net/


--behdad
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