All my notes

Updated August 20, 2006 @ 20:01 PDT

I’m collecting links for everyone to read:

Here is a list of questions:

  • Does anyone know of a good Open Sourced OCR program for character recognition? I only really am finding this one app: http://jocr.sf.net/
  • I have found this newsforge article which lays out the field. I’m thinking that adding OCR support to Inkscape would be killer along with our Trace Bitmap option.
  • OCRAD looks interesting as well and possibly the best for FLOSS right now…
  • According to this Novell sponsored poll, Linux Users are demanding Photoshop… I have been wondering what is next for the GIMP. What do you all think? I have been discussing with others a possible strategy of really pushing hard on GEGL and librar’ification of the core raster functions from GIMP, something akin to CAIRO, but for rasters. Hopefully this strategy would open up GIMP to the outside community more and seed some other projects which focus on a diverse part of raster/bitmap needs. Also, I think it would be good to have a slight rename of GIMP to encourage people into using it. Photoshop is an awesome name for an app, but GIMP has very little outside-of-open-source connection with graphics. What about something like RASTA (get it…raster, but with dreads), pixelpusher (literally), photoverse, phototype, and the list goes on…please comment!
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