[Bug-ocrad] Version 0.18 of GNU Ocrad released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Ocrad 0.18.

Ocrad is the GNU OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html

The sources can be dowloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ocrad/ or from 
your favorite GNU mirror.

This version is also available in lzip format. If your distro doesn't 
yet distribute the lzip program, you can download it from 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html

The md5sums are:
5d2d39e218d7f219e53c08ce07556d66  ocrad-0.18.tar.gz
ba812571391857188b454c436418ec1f  ocrad-0.18.tar.lz

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

Changes in version 0.18:

* The layout analyser is now able to separate blocks of text of 
arbitrary shape as long as they are clearly delimited by white space.

  * The new option "--quiet" has been added.

  * The "--layout" option no more accepts an argument.

  * The "--crop" option now accepts negative coordinates, interpreted 
as relative to the right-bottom corner of the image.

  * This version recognizes the letter 'a' with ring above.

  * Recognition of files with a single big character has been fixed.

  * A bug that didn't write maxval when saving pgm or ppm files has 
been fixed.

  * A problem that prevented compilation with GCC 4.3.0 has been fixed.

  * "make install-info" should now work on Debian and OS X.

  * The man page is now installed by default.

  * Arg_parser has been updated to 1.2.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.