25 Feb
2010
25 Feb
'10
7:22 p.m.
I asked the price of Linux development kit. It is 9000 Euro, plus some more money to get a licence for a fixed number of page/month (500 euro for 25k pages/month)
As opposed to $400 a pop per volunteer buying the recommended ABBYY Finereader in order to do a good job of OCR, or $0 to do a bad job of OCR using whatever came free with one's scanner -- leaving the P1's to be the ones who are actually doing the OCR! Maybe we should do a straw poll of the volunteers about who is willing to donate to a hosted OCR. If each DP volunteer were willing to donate $3 we would be there.