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Re: what about kooka?
by superstoned on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @02:30

yeah, that's an idea. And the Krita ppl are also working on a new rasterpicture standard, so you could have both the OCR-ed text AND the picture in one document, I think. PDF supports something like that, I believe, but that's not editable of course.

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Re: what about kooka?
by Cyrille Berger on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @05:15

No need for OpenRaster to have both OCR and the pixture in one document (and honestly it would be the worse usuage of it), you can embed a png in an odt, and that would be perfect for that job. OpenRaster is only usefull if you have multiple layer (either image or effect layers) and after scanning you only have one layer.

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Re: what about kooka?
by Daniel G on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @08:28

There are formats better suited for scanned images than PNG. the DejaVu (DJV) file format does a good job at this.

And there's a use for OCR + image: you may want to *search* text, specially in multi-page documents, but keep the typography (which you may not have the right to distribute), layout, pictures... and keep in mind that OCR is not perfect.

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Re: what about kooka?
by Cyrille Berger on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @12:46

Sure there is use for OCR + image, that's what you get with ODT :) And I do believe that as soon as OCR is involved a text centric format is much more usefull than a graphic format.

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