Comment 44 for bug 623438

Here is another note from René:

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:53, Rene Rebe <email address hidden> wrote:

Note that I wrote the initial hOCR annotation in cuneiform, ... :-)

If they desperately want to keep this new format, one could add 2 different hOCR formats, like hocr and hocr-detailed or so to cuneiform.

However, one could also use my initial style bbox per character annocation and their new whole span bbox. However, I see no reason for thiis imprecise and hard to parse span after span x_bboxes, per glyph bbox's would retain compatibility with hocr2pdf and also get higher precision as the x_bboxes do not contain the individual heights, ...

       René