Contributing to Gamera
Gamera is an open source project and joining its development is always welcome. If you have written a Gamera based application or toolkit, please let us know so that we can link to it in the "Addons" section.
You are also welcome to directly contribute to the Gamera code. Here is a TODO list of possible projects. Some of these projects might nicely fit as part of a bachelor's or master's thesis. Just contact us before starting, to avoid any duplicate efforts. We are glad to provide all necessary additional information.
- Port of toolkits to Python 3 and Gamera 4
- Fix the genetic optimization algorithm for feature weighting.
- Figure out how to compile Gamera on Windows and create a binary release.
- More page layout analysis resp. page segmentation methods. E.g. text/graphics separation and more text line finding algorithms.
- Add multilevel thresholding.
- Support FFT on Gamera images by wrapping FFT from VIGRA.
- A new menu function in the interactive classifier dialog for highlighting outliers, i.e. possible manual misclassifications. Can be based on MNN editing.
- Add automatic clustering algorithms for training data.
- Adding more classifiers like Gaussian mixture models, support vector machines, or hidden Markov models.
- Add support for the hOCR exchange format in the form of a general writing and parsing library.
- Write wrappers for external OCR engines like Tesseract OCR as optional plugins.
- Add more image formats: JPEG (reading/writing), PDF (writing)...