problem in using open source....

[prasadnsrs]

hi
i need to run the open source (gocr )in the windows environment vch is came vth linux packageand vth a tcl gui and i need to work it in windows how can i....?help me....
thanks in advance...

[DavidMD]

Hello, prasadnsrs.

hi
i need to run the open source (gocr )in the windows environment vch is came vth linux packageand vth a tcl gui and i need to work it in windows how can i....?help me....
thanks in advance...

First of all, please note that Linux Forums is for the discussion of Linux, not Windows. Second of all, you posted a query to the forum about Debian GNU/Linux, which seems to be a totally random choice.

Because I am criticized for "being too nice," I will give you some guidance, but you should expect to be "flamed," if your query is not deleted by this forum's moderators before you receive less civil responses than mine.

The official Web site for GOCR (the original Optical Character Recognition project's name) is the JOCR project on Sourceforge.net. (GOCR was already in use, so Joerg Schulenburg -- who started GOCR -- selected JOCR.)

In March 2009 (last month), Peter B. L. Meijer posted a 32-bit Windows-binary version of GOCR (v0.47) to Joerg Schulenburg's Web site at the University of Madgeburg in Germany.

You can download gocr047.exe v0.47 (144k) for Windows at the following URL:

- <http://www-e.uni-magdeburg.de/jschulen/ocr/gocr047.exe>

Given the small size of the binary, I can tell that it is a command-line executable.

Please note that binary versions of GOCR do not include any documentation. You will have to download and extract the source code (a GZipped "tarball"), using Windows tools that can handle .gz and .tar files (try using 7-Zip, which is free, cross-platform, and open source).

Next, use either use the source code or Meijer's comments in the source code as documentation. You might find that gocr-0.47.tar.gz has documentation as man or info pages -- or, if you are lucky, in HTML format.

If you have any questions, please ask them in a Windows-only forum. You are asking for help about Windows in a Linux forum, and in the Debian Linux Help discussion area. You are doubly off-topic and I should not be responding to your inquiry.

If you are seriously interested in Linux, please consider setting up your computer to dual-boot Windows and Linux. I deleted Windows from my personal hardware over three years ago, and I have been using Linux since 2002. Linux takes time and patience -- and the willingness to read and research on your own...especially before asking what may be an obvious question in a Linux forum.

Linux users are more than happy to help Linux neophytes ("newbies"), but we do expect new users to "do their homework" before asking questions.

Cordially,

David

[bigtomrodney]

I've moved this to the programming section, though to be honest you're probably not asking this question on the right forum at all.