OCR engine

[Kevin Kofler]

Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at ...> writes:
> > It also includes non-free software in the tarball?
> 
> Not it doesnt.  checkout the code from 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr

It does. From the README:

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Other Dependencies and Licenses:
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The Aspirin/MIGRAINES system in the aspirin directory is separately
licensed thus:
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  ****************   NO WARRANTY  *****************
 
Since the Aspirin/MIGRAINES system is licensed free of charge,
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special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of
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  *****************   COPYRIGHT  *******************
 
This software is the copyright of Russell Leighton and the MITRE Corporation. 
It may be freely used and modified for research and development
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The MITRE Corporation for conditions of use. Russell Leighton and 
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   August, 1992 
   Russell Leighton
   The MITRE Corporation
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   McLean, Va. 22102-3481


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And that library appears to be the neural network library everything else 
depends on. So this is only free for "research and development purposes", thus 
not Free Software.

        Kevin Kofler