[Jocr-devels] libPgm2asc.a in gocr-0.46

[Igor F. [Contr] <ig...@he...>]

Dear GOCR developers,

First of all I would like to say thank you for the great job you are
doing! I have tried/tested OCRAD, Tesseract and a few other OCR programs
and while all of them have their strengths and weaknesses to my
knowledge GOCR is the only project that has a clean and simple API to
use from  another GPL project.
Which is why it was to my great dismay I have found that in the latest
version - 0.46 the generation of libPgm2asc.a has been discontinued "for
simplicity".  I am a developer of open source optical chemical structure
recognition software - OSRA (http://osra.sourceforge.net). I rely on
GOCR library for character recognition as part of my program. Removing
libPgm2asc is an inconvenience at the least and a major problem at the
worst. Calling the reason "for simplicity" is just adding insult to
injury. For right now I'm recommending the users of my software to avoid
gocr-0.46 but this situation is untenable in the long run. I am urging
to change this and restore the creation of libPgm2asc library as this is
the  piece of GOCR that is most important to my project and this is what
distinguishes GOCR from all other OCR software.

Best regards,
Igor Filippov