Talk:Tesseract (software)

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[edit] Not quite free software?

Although most of Tesseract is free software under the Apache License v2.0, the Aspirin neural network engine may not be. I've no idea if that license is free. I might email the FSF and ask - David Gerard 20:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

It seems Aspirin was removed in v. 1.02. Rwxrwxrwx 18:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I finally got email back from the FSF - they asked Google about that bit of the licence and Google apparently went "oops" :-) - David Gerard 16:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User-friendly versions

Tesseract seems rather technically challenging to install/configure. FreeOCR is built on it, and may be more user-friendly for people who have the required Windows 2K/XP. Archivista Box is a complete document management solution Linux livecd that includes Tesseract.[1] [2] The iso download is here:[3] Do any other livecds include Tesseract? Does anyone make it available as on online tool? It is odd that this is a google project, but they aren't making it available in readily usable forms. -69.87.204.80 20:34, 2 October 2007 (UTC)