Hi Grant, what you're doing seems great. I've checked the Tess4j (http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/) they released and distributed under the Apache License, v2.0<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html> .
Hope it helps. BR, Oleg On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Grant Ingersoll (JIRA) <j...@apache.org>wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-93?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13895514#comment-13895514] > > Grant Ingersoll commented on TIKA-93: > ------------------------------------- > > It can, via some ancient JavaIO stuff, which, in some cases, has some > weird dependencies. Still working this out, but the way this is shaping up > is that it is all going to have to be very pluggable to avoid any of these > cases. If anyone is up for lobbying the Tess4J team to remove > GPL/LGPL/viral dependencies, we'd be in much better shape. > > > OCR support > > ----------- > > > > Key: TIKA-93 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-93 > > Project: Tika > > Issue Type: New Feature > > Components: parser > > Reporter: Jukka Zitting > > Priority: Minor > > > > I don't know of any decent open source pure Java OCR libraries, but > there are command line OCR tools like Tesseract ( > http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) that could be invoked by Tika to > extract text content (where available) from image files. > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.1.5#6160) >