Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 41121
Inclusion of Value added features in OOo
Last modified: 2014-03-02 07:39:36 UTC
As of now OOo contains standard feature set. How about adding more value added features to it like - Grammar checking Translation from one language to another Optical character recognition Speech recognition Hand writing recognition Similar office suits (most notable MSO) already contain them. Some of the features are already in the open source domain. How about integrating them to OOo. Try to come to the level playing field as far as features are concerned, then offer something extra. That should be your real goal.
>Grammar Checking a) A Grammar Checking API is being worked on. IIRC, the specs won't be formally defined untill Fall 2005, _unless_ the community makes a presentation prior to then. b) Three "functional" grammar checkers currently exist for OOo. [The two I've used are painfully slow.] >Translation from one language to another Would the original requester elaborate on what they mean by this? Specifically, are they wanting: i) Computer Assisted Translation Tools ii) Machine Assisted Translation Tools if i) what they want that is not part of either _Vocabulary_ or _OmegaT_. [To pick the extremes of CATT that integrate with OOo.] >Optical character recognition This is _hard_, as in very non-trivial. Are there _any_ FLOSS tools that do this? >Speech recognition This is a function of Accessibility. This is also non-trivial. Are there any FLOSS tools that do this? >Hand writing recognition This is a function of Accessiblity. This is also non-trivial. Are there any FLOSS tools that do this?
>Grammar Checking It is nice to know, that development for Grammar checker has started at last. OOo website says (at some places) that grammar checking is a _Wish_ project and will not be initiated any time soon. Since development has started it _will_ be available sooner or later. Thanks :-). >Translation from one language to another It should be construed as _Computer Assisted Translation Tools_ Please visit http://www.google.com/ . A _Language Tools_ link is there. Follow it. A page will give options for Text Translations (As much as 18 !) e.g. English To German and vice versa. It even has a feature to translate web pages by typing/pasting their URLs. Although Google is a commercial organization but this service is totally non-commercial (at least as of now). Now what is there in it, for an office suit? M$ Office ;-) provides same kind of functionality built directly into it. Can users of OOo have the same functionality? >Optical character recognition Here are some of the Tools - Clara OCR (GPL) Ocrad - OCR program based on feature extraction (GPL) >Hand writing recognition An extension of OCR. So it needs to be developed by extending OCR. (No idea for readily available FLOSS). >Speech recognition gnome-speech (LGPL v2orlater) - API for producing text-to-speech output as well as _speech input_. (Developers Marc Mulcahy <marc.mulcahy@sun.com> and others). >This is _hard_, very non-trivial! What do you think development of an Enterprise Class operating system (Linux) or a High Quality Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) or a Robust Web server (Apache) (or climbing to the Mount Everest or Landing at the Lunar Surface) Trivial tasks? But still Humans _have_ done it ! :-) Development of an OS as large as 55,000,000 LOCs (Debian 2.2) is really hard, but did it deter people from around the world, from developing it? [In case if you are more curious about sizes of the open source softwares then please have a look at the paper _Counting potatoes: The size of Debian 2.2_ at the URL http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/counting-potatoes.html ] >few suggestions (1) hardness or triviality should not be the criteria for innovation or doing something useful. Innovation is what made MS OR GM OR GE such a phenomenal success. (2) Please have a look at http://www.gnu.org/. You may find many technologies which _can_ be integrated in OOo. (3) If concepts discussed above can not be integrated with OOo, then it is OK. Future versions of OSs _will_ provide them anyway. :-) Good Luck and Good Wishes always from an OpenOffice.org Admirer.
Please try to make OOo “The†Office Suit and _NOT_ “Me Too†or “Also Runs†Office Suit. Try to extend OOo's Universal Selling Proposition (USP). In simpler words “what is your selling point†apart from being open source and free. Short answer is - Innovation. Thanks
reassigned to requirements
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request. The Issue you raised is currently assigned to 'Requirements' pending review, but has not been updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed. Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing): http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/ Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of: ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
Confirmed with AOO410m14(Build:9760) - Rev. 1573062 2014-03-01_04:11:01 - Rev. 1573123 Debian