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[bug#57151] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add tesseract-ocr-tessdata-fast.
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Maxim Cournoyer |
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[bug#57151] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add tesseract-ocr-tessdata-fast. |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 08:52:25 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Simon,
Simon South <simon@simonsouth.net> writes:
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>> * gnu/packages/ocr.scm (tesseract-ocr-tessdata-fast): New variable.
>
> Maxim,
>
> Would it not be better to generate a separate package for each of the
> languages and scripts this data covers, as is done by Debian for
> instance? The entire dataset is about a gigabyte in size and supports
> more than a hundred languages yet I imagine most people would be using
> only one or two.
>
> This would mean tesseract-ocr could simply propagate the
> "tesseract-ocr-tessdata-fast-eng" package rather than cherry-picking a
> specific file, and would establish a convention that would be necessary
> for packaging the "best" dataset as well, if that's desired.
That's a good idea! I think we could have both, like Debian also has a
'tesseract-ocr-all' package for all the languages/scripts. Which means
the individual variants could be added in at a later time by those
interested, eh :-).
A procedure returning a language-specific package variant would make
sense for that.
Thanks,
Maxim