GNU Ocrad 0.25 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Ocrad 0.25.

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:
9f64b0e91eaf83a1ee024de562a8652622121eb1  ocrad-0.25.tar.lz

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

Changes in version 0.25:

  * The new option "-E, --user-filter", which allows the use of 
user-defined filters, has been added.

  * Character recognition has been improved. ('2' vs 'Z', '4' vs 'Q', 
'5' vs 'S', 'E', 'J', merged 'VV').

  * Uppercase 'Y' with acute and 'Y' with diaeresis are now recognized.

  * Uppercase 'S' and 'Z' with caron are no more misrecognized as 
lowercase.

  * The new built-in filters "text_block" and "upper_num_mark" have 
been added.

  * The output of "--help" has been extended.

  * The new chapters "Introduction" and "Filters" have been added to 
the manual.

  * The testsuite now checks the recognition of 11 more characters.

  * The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress", 
"install-info-compress" and "install-man-compress" have been added to 
the Makefile. (Installing compressed docs may become the default in the 
future).


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.