(X-post to kde-devel. please reply to debian-devel@lists.debian.org) Liebe Entwickler, dear developers,
as far as I can tell, current alternatives to commercial products (I dare name Abbyy Finereader and Omnipage Pro) such as gocr and ocrad, fail to reach the same standards. This is partly a matter of man power and money spent (I suppose), partly a question of technology (best results are achieved when operating on "3 dimensional" greyscale scans). Researching on further informations, I found out, that the university of KL (Kaiserslautern?) offers a payed PhD project which deals exactly with this task: "Develop a free open source software (FLOSS) that does optical character recognition (OCR) with optimal results." Further information can be obtained from: Christoph Lampert (username: "chl"; servername: "iupr.net") I can't tell if the thesis has to be done in German, but of course, it can only be done by postgraduates. Finally, I quote Christoph's original posting from April, this year (he just told me, that there haven't been any serious applicants since!) >> Hallo Liste, >> >> >> eine Mitteilung, eine Frage: >> >> Wir haben voraussichtlich demnaechst am DFKI in KL einige gut >> bezahlte Doktorandenstellen, die sich mit der Entwicklung einer Open >> Source OCR-Loesung unter Linux beschaeftigen sollen. Wenn jemand von >> Euch, oder jemand, den Ihr kennt, Interesse hat, kann er sich direkt >> an mich wenden, dann schicke ich Euch Informationen. Regards Ralf P.S.: Developers who are ready to support the usage of FLOSS at schools, are invited to meet their requirements by developing missing software as described at http://skolelinux.de/wiki/LernSoftware/Desiderata - Please, take into consideration that the generation to come will use the type of software (and OS) they know from school... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
