On 16/10/06, Yann Forget <yann(a)forget-me.net> wrote:
Much of the limits of Wikisource now is on the
capability to scan and
ocr documents. There is no good free OCR software, apart the new
software recently released to GPL by Google, but it works only for
English and has still limitations.
Including that it appears to be only mostly-free software - the neural
net software "may be freely used and modified for research and
development purposes" and requires acknowledgement of the original
authors for such use. It's not clear whether this is in fact a free
software licence.
- d.