GNU Ocrad 0.24 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

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 address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.