# OCR mailing list started

Andrew Kuchling (amk@magnet.com)
Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:37:44 -0500 (EST)

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[This announcement is initially just going to sane-devel, but soon
I'll submit it to c.o.l.a, and post it to comp.ai.doc-analysis.ocr
and comp.os.linux.development.apps. Suggestions of other relevant
newsgroups/mailing lists, or for improvements to the announcement,
would be really helpful; send them to amk@magnet.com]

A mailing list has been started for discussion of the design and
implementation of a freeware Optical Character Recognition program for
Unix.

Scanner support for Unix is under rapid development thanks to projects
such as SANE (http://www.mostang.com/sane/), and applications such as
GIMP are beginning to benefit from it. OCR is one major application
missing from the freeware Unix, and has long been on the FSF's project
list, as well. The project is going to have to create both a user
interface and a character recognition engine.

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Andrew Kuchling
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