Michael Below wrote:
> the package description is not proper english:
>
> "to higher" the accessibility of something (last paragraph) is
> wrong, should be "to improve".
>
> "especially suited for the archival of books with high quality" is
> ambiguous (is it suited for good books, or for good archival?),
> maybe "especially suited for the high quality archival of books".
>
> I am not a native english speaker myself, just stumbled across
> these two and got confirmation on IRC for these. Maybe the
> description should be checked by a native speaker.
I'm not the maintainer, but I am an English native speaker (and
debian-l10n-english regular), and I see a few other features of this
package description that could be improved by a minor rewrite (for
instance it misspells "Ocrad" as "Ocard", and only expands the
abbreviation "OCR" after it has already been used twice).
Patch attached. The last paragraph needs to be fact-checked to ensure
I'm not changing the intended meaning (but if I've guessed wrong,
that's another sign it needs to be made clearer).
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru ocrodjvu-0.7.6.pristine/debian/control ocrodjvu-0.7.6/debian/control
--- ocrodjvu-0.7.6.pristine/debian/control 2011-11-18 16:37:23.000000000 +0000
+++ ocrodjvu-0.7.6/debian/control 2011-11-29 15:11:52.947361983 +0000
@@ -34,13 +34,12 @@
Recommends: ocropus (>= 0.3.1), python-lxml, python-pyicu, tesseract-ocr
Suggests: cuneiform, gocr, ocrad
Description: tool to perform OCR on DjVu documents
- ocrodjvu is a wrapper around OCR systems (OCRopus, Cuneiform, Ocard, GOCR and
- Tesseract) with the purpose to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in
- documents in DjVu format (which is especially suited for archival of books
- with high quality).
+ ocrodjvu is a wrapper around Optical Character Recognition systems
+ (supporting OCRopus, Cuneiform, Ocrad, GOCR, or Tesseract). It is
+ designed for OCR on documents in DjVu format, and is especially suited to
+ high-quality archiving of books.
.
- When a DjVu document has been OCRed, it includes a text version of the
- images of the scanned document and, with common programs, one can not
- only print on paper, but also read such books/documents, searching for
- specific terms and also use the information in the OCR layer as a way
- to higher the accessibility of such documents.
+ Scanning a DjVu document embeds a version of the content as a text layer.
+ Other programs can then be used to read the document, search it for
+ specific terms, print it out, or use the information in the OCR layer as
+ a way to improve the document's accessibility.
