I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Ocrad 0.28. GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program and library based on a feature extraction method. It reads images in png or pnm formats and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats.
Ocrad includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns and blocks of text normally found on printed pages. Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to other programs. 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 sha256sum is: 34ccea576dbdadaa5979e6202344c3ff68737d829ca7b66f71c8497d36bbbf2e ocrad-0.28.tar.lz This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending '.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742 Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739 FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742 Changes in version 0.28: * Support for PNG images has been implemented using libpng. * The variables AR and ARFLAGS can now be set from configure. (Before you needed to run 'make AR=<ar_command>'. * The version test macro 'OCRAD_API_VERSION' and the function 'OCRAD_api_version' are now declared in the header file 'ocradlib.h'. They tell to the application the version of the library. * Many minor fixes and improvements have been made. Please send bug reports and suggestions to bug-oc...@gnu.org Regards, Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer. -- If you care about data safety and long-term archiving, please consider using lzip. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks. -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
