Re: [Bug-ocrad] Support for hOCR

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Raffaele.

Raffaele Sena wrote:
> Not sure of why you can't get the document from Google Docs, but I have
> download it as a PDF for you.

I really appreciate your efforts. I couldn't get the document from 
Google Docs because I do not have one of the browsers blessed by Google 
(and I am not going to install one just to run nonfree javascript).

Google Docs is SaaS (software as a service). This alone would be bad 
enough, but it is even worse[1].

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
"Publishing via someone else's repository does not raise privacy issues, 
but publishing through Google Docs has a special problem: it is 
impossible even to view the text of a Google Docs document in a browser 
without running the nonfree JavaScript code. Thus, you should not use 
Google Docs to publish anything - but the reason is not a matter of SaaSS."

Therefore I must refuse to implement hOCR in ocrad, don't matter how 
easy or even how useful it may be, until the specification for the hOCR 
format is published in a way that does not require running nonfree 
software just to see it. (Which may be difficult because hOCR seems to 
be developed by Google).


Best regards,
Antonio.