[spambayes-dev] FW: [Jocr-devels] redistribute gocr binaries?

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2007-02-27 13:59, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Sjoerd> Do keep in mind that gocr and ocrad are not installed on all
>     Sjoerd> systems.  It's great if you put it into the Windows
>     Sjoerd> distribution, but on Linux that is not an option, and spambayes
>     Sjoerd> should still work on Linux as well.
> 
> The image analysis code will still work if you enable the image cracking
> options but don't have the requisite ocr engine installed.  It just emits a
> message to standard error and returns.

I'm not sure that is a good user interface: don't change anything to the
code and you get a warning about a missing program.

Would it be possible to have the default for using OCR to be off on all
systems but Windows where gocr and/or ocrad is included?

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender

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