[Bug 216534] Review Request: gocr - GNU Optical Character Recognition program

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Summary: Review Request: gocr - GNU Optical Character Recognition program


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216534





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2006-11-23 05:51 EST -------
Looking at tkispell on the web it doesn't seems to be 
maintained, and it is not obvious where upstream is.
Looking at the gocr.tcl code, it looks like spellchecking involves
putting a file named out01.txt in the current directory which is not
cleaned up, and is the same file the output text is saved to in the 
default case... My opinion would be to disable this functionality. I did
it simply by commenting out

pack .abar.spell -side left

I spotted another issue, the config file is found and written in the
current directory, and not in $HOME! This is bad... Maybe we shouldn't
ship gocr.tcl? It hasn't really be changed in 4 years.

Testing a bit gtk-ocr, I found at least 2 bugs (a crash, and also
at another point the files appeared but I couldn't convert them). It is
saner with regard with the handling of config file, however the converted
file is saved in a file with same name than input file with .txt appended
without any possibility to override this, nor any explanation of where
the converted file is saved to... The default image viewer here is 
display from ImageMagick. Looking at the cvs, it seems that it hasn't been
changed in 6 years.

My personal opinion is that those 2 frontends are too buggy and unmaintained
to be shipped. 

Now regarding the segfault, I think it is problematic since it seems to me 
that support for widely used image formats (png, eps, jpeg) should be 
working in a shipped package. For devel it is not problematic, but for FC-6
and below I think this should be a must. Not supporting compressed 
images is not an issue in my opinion.

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