Contributing To Conjecture
Conjecture is an open-source project. Not only that, one of its
primary design considerations was making it easy for individuals
(both programmers AND non-programmers) to actively contribute to
improving the quality of OCR.
There are many ways you can help, and it is a certainty that you
have knowledge that will benefit Conjecture and OCR in general.
Please help where you can!
How to Contribute Without Coding
Conjecture has the potential to be a rather ambituous
project, with many different directions that can be explored.
Here are some ways that you can make Conjecture better without
doing any programming:
- Optimize Parameters: Experiment with the
configurable parameters associated with each OCR and
report which combinations produce increases in accurarcy.
Conjecture has an assessment infrastructure that makes such
experimentation easy. wmh: TODO - document the
modules/Conjecture.tests file and how variants can be
added.
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Image Database: Help grow and organize the image
database. The more text-based images we have (along with the
canonical textual representation associated with
each image), the more comprehensive and useful the
assessement infrastructure will be.
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Mailing List: Participating in discussions on the
mailing list
- Correct Documentation: Edit the documentation to fix
mistakes, make the discussion more clear, etc.
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Answer Questions: One of the many great things about
open-source group projects is the vast knowledge base of the
community. There are always questions (whose answer would
benefit Conjecture in some way) that an individual doesn't
have the time to answer personally, These questions are posted
in 'Participating/Questions'. Read through these questions and
answer those that you know. Either inform the question poser
what the answer is, or, even better, solve the problem being
addressed by the question yourself.
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Wishlist: Brainstorm with others on the Conjecture
forum about possible strategies for addressing a particular
issue, or about desired features of a generalized OCR.
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Advertise: Inform others of the Conjecture project!
How to Contribute By Adding New Code
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