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It seems it's just a frontend to Microsoft OCR. From the article: The (a9t9) Free OCR Software for Windows Store tool is a graphical user interface front-end

It seems it's just a frontend to Microsoft OCR. From the article: The (a9t9) Free OCR Software for Windows Store tool is a graphical user interface front-end (GUI) for the new Microsoft OCR library. It is written in C#/WPF and the full source code is available as ready-to-compile Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 project on GitHub under the GPL V2 open source license.

nycwarrior8 12y ago
Yes, this incompetent novice programmer just createad a hideous GUI for an already-existing platform. He deserves no credit or attention from us. I miss the days when Hacker News only had actual talented developers. Now any script kiddie makes it to the front page.
- leeoniya 12y ago
  i miss the days when Hacker News was almost troll-free
- jaredsohn 12y ago
  I miss the days when people didn't post comments on Hacker News that called project authors incompetent, untalented script kiddies.
Sephr 12y ago
Pretty sure it's illegal too, since he didn't even care to include the license for the Microsoft.Windows.Ocr[1] package used in this project. The author seems to care about people redistributing their work as they added a GPL license to the project, but they didn't care enough to include the licenses of the libraries doing the actual work. An interesting part of the license that the author is likely violating is the benchmarking restriction. The author links to another post on their blog that is entirely comprised of benchmarks.[2] Personally I don't like the restriction either, but it's Microsoft's choice and the author must respect their choice. "4. BENCHMARK TESTING. You must obtain Microsoft's prior written approval to disclose to a third party the results of any benchmark test of the software." 1: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.Ocr/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.Ocr/ 2: http://blog.a9t9.com/2015/04/new-free-online-ocr-service.html http://blog.a9t9.com/2015/04/new-free-online-ocr-service.htm...

nycwarrior8 12y ago

Yes, this incompetent novice programmer just createad a hideous GUI for an already-existing platform. He deserves no credit or attention from us. I miss the days when Hacker News only had actual talented developers. Now any script kiddie makes it to the front page.

leeoniya 12y ago
i miss the days when Hacker News was almost troll-free
jaredsohn 12y ago
I miss the days when people didn't post comments on Hacker News that called project authors incompetent, untalented script kiddies.

Sephr 12y ago

Pretty sure it's illegal too, since he didn't even care to include the license for the Microsoft.Windows.Ocr[1] package used in this project. The author seems to care about people redistributing their work as they added a GPL license to the project, but they didn't care enough to include the licenses of the libraries doing the actual work. An interesting part of the license that the author is likely violating is the benchmarking restriction. The author links to another post on their blog that is entirely comprised of benchmarks.[2] Personally I don't like the restriction either, but it's Microsoft's choice and the author must respect their choice. "4. BENCHMARK TESTING. You must obtain Microsoft's prior written approval to disclose to a third party the results of any benchmark test of the software." 1: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.Ocr/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.Ocr/ 2: http://blog.a9t9.com/2015/04/new-free-online-ocr-service.html http://blog.a9t9.com/2015/04/new-free-online-ocr-service.htm...