[Okular-devel] OCR Tool for Okular

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 3 d'abril de 2013, a les 21:12:30, Anıl Özbek va escriure:
> 2013/4/3 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> > Why should this be a part of Okular and not a separate binary? I can
> > imagine millions of other places i'd like to have OCR on. What's the
> > benefit of it being Okular-only?
> 
> I need small-scale OCR only at three type software:
> 
> * Web Browser (Chrome)
> * Image Viewer (Gwenview)
> * Document Viewer (Okular)

So are you planning to implement the same feature three times seems a bit 
boring and a hell maintainance wise?

Sincerely I think a standalone application/library is much better. Once that 
standalone application/library exists we might even add a toolbar entry or 
something in okular if we detect it is installed to ease the use to the end 
user.

Cheers,
  Albert

> And document viewer comes first for me. Actually there isn't much
> benefits of OCR tool at Okular. I can count only one or two:
> 
> * It's easier to run (more than once) a builtin tool instead of run a
> third party app.
> * It works more integrated with Okular (selected text shown with
> Okular's notification system) and it can be used very similarly to
> other tools in Okular (just select something and selected thing is in
> your clipboard like Copy to Clipboard tool does).
> * Not everyone can find such a app if it released standalone. Because
> it's not a very generic type of software. But if it comes with an
> widely used and related application, more people can use it.
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Anıl Özbek
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