Project name and spelling: ocropus vs. ocropy vs. OCRopus vs. OCRopy?

[kba]

What is the preferred name of this project?

It started as OCRopus, then it was mostly used in the lowercase form ocropus and at some point the project was renamed ocropy, but not the binaries nor the documentation.

Personally, I think (lowercase) ocropus is a great name and I would stick with it. It's easy to remember, triggers associations and could even be used for a logo at some point. 😄

Butocropy also works for me, if there are any reasons for the change. Renaming the binaries to ocropy-... might break a lot of running code though.

But I do think that spelling should be consistent to get better outreach.

[wanghaisheng]

ocropus +1

[zuphilip]

I have already seen a logo for ocropus:

[wanghaisheng]

where d u find it

[zuphilip]

Logo found on http://madm.dfki.de/demos/document-analysis

However, any words from @tmbdev could clarify why there are two names and how to continue.

[amitdo]

I don't think 'OCRopy' name has ever been used.

IIRC, Thomas Breuel has trademarked 'OCRopus'.

[amitdo]

Correcting myself. 'OCRopy' has been used here by Tom.
https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy/releases/tag/v1.0

[kba]

From conversation with @tmbdev: the reasoning is that the whole toolset or system is ocropus and this repository that implements a subset of the tools in Python is called ocropy. ocropus encompasses at least ocropy and clstm, hocr-tools(?), the docker container(?)...

[tmbdev]

Well, there used to be a high level repository that included the others as subrepos and contained a top-level driver and build script. But that was several projects, version control systems, and hosting companies ago.

There is currently an ocropus project on github, but it's almost empty.

For now, Kraken has been fulfilling the need for a turnkey system for some people.

I think it's worth revisiting this question once the new GPU code is ready.

[zuphilip]

=> moved to FAQ https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy/wiki/FAQ#what-is-the-preferred-name-of-this-project