I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Ocrad 0.24.
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 sha1sum is:
b46bbb4b57a3bf2d544cedca47b40f24d8aa811a ocrad-0.24.tar.lz
If you are wondering why ocrad is distributed in lzip format, you should
read this benchmark http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.txt
This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending ".sig" to the URL.
Changes in version 0.24:
* Character recognition has been improved.
(merged 'LZ', 'TZ' and 'rt', '9' vs 'g', 'A' vs 'R', 'C' vs '(',
'G', 'J', 'L', 's', 'x', 'z').
* Several filters can be now applied in sequence using more than one
"--filter" option.
* The new filters "same_height", "upper_num" and "upper_num_only",
have been added.
* The description of "OCRAD_result_blocks" in the manual has been fixed.
* The license has been changed to GPL version 2 or later for better
GPL compatibility. GPLv2 and GPLv2+ programs may use the library now.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to bug-oc...@gnu.org
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.
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