Write a GPLed OCR software. There is no free OCR software now. And it's an important tool for projects like Gutenberg Project, who are changing all public domain books in free ASCII files. This is an important task : these projects give an access to litteracy to a lot of people, even blind people : ASCII e-books can be displayed with BRAILLE devices, or automaticaly read with speech interface.
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Write a GPLed OCR software. There is no free OCR software now. And it's an important tool for projects like Gutenberg Project, who are changing all public domain books in free ASCII files. This is an important task : these projects give an access to litteracy to a lot of people, even blind people : ASCII e-books can be displayed with BRAILLE devices, or automaticaly read with speech interface.