GNU Ocrad 0.16 review

GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 73K Developer: Antonio Diaz Diaz

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GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method.

Also includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or 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.

What's New in This Release:
A new option "--filter" has been added.
The algorithm for vertical space detection (blank lines) has been improved.
Some fixes to the "configure" script have been made.
Two new debug levels have been added.
Character recognition has been improved.