GetUTF8Text() monitor and multi-platform projects

[Jaykob]

We're working on a multi-platform project (iOS, Android, OS X) and use your project to compile tesseract for Android.
What strikes us is that you made changes to baseapi.h. Would it be possible to still provide the original tesseract API calls, e.g. GetUTF8Text() without a parameter? Adding new functions is fine, but removing the original ones makes life hard for cross-platform developers...

[rmtheis]

Thanks for the feedback. That's a good point.

If some incarnation of support for a monitor (tesseract-ocr/tesseract#27) is merged into Tesseract, then this project will be able to use Tesseract's baseApi class without the customizations.

Let's leave this issue open as a reminder that this is something that needs attention in the meantime.