Any OCR I've seen would take a lot of human intervention, even with a clean original.
-John ============= > In message <4e1dee43.3070...@erols.com>, Chuck Harris writes: > >>I can conceive of a case where a publisher like McGraw-Hill's copyrighted >> book >>full of public domain IP could be copied if you used your own type font, >> and >>formatting of pages, pictures and text, etc... > > Yeah, well, maybe... > > The crux of this case is that it has to be humans doing it. > > Just OCR'eing the book and letting a computer reformat the words to > a different page-layout is unlikely to earn you a copyright. > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
