I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Ocrad 0.22.

Ocrad is the GNU OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program and library.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html

The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ocrad/ http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ocrad/ or from your favorite GNU mirror.

The md5sum is:
e84f0fb0dcd9b7b067201f9a3b89e06c  ocrad-0.22.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending ".sig" to the URL.

Changes in version 0.22:

  * Scaling and smoothing are now made before thresholding.

* Character recognition has been improved. (D-O, H-N, O-Q, V-Y, merged TT).

  * New library function OCRAD_set_utf8_format.

  * Small improvements have been made in the manual and in the man page.

* Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU Coding Standards.

  * The configure script now accepts options with a separate argument.

* Configure option "--datadir" has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to follow GNU Standards.

  * The target "install-bin" has been added to the Makefile.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected]


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.


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