[Bug-ocrad] Version 0.22-rc2 of GNU Ocrad released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Version 0.22-rc2 of GNU Ocrad is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ocrad/ocrad-0.22-rc2.tar.lz

The md5sum is:
d8669a90ffa3d78db330a8c5e0394119  ocrad-0.22-rc2.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a 
feature extraction method. It reads images in pbm (bitmap), pgm 
(greyscale) or ppm (color) formats and produces text in byte (8-bit) or 
UTF-8 formats.

Ocrad includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or blocks 
of text normally found on printed pages.

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


Changes in this version:

  * Scaling and smoothing are now made before thresholding.

  * Character recognition has been improved. (H - N, O - Q, V - Y, 
merged TT). Thanks to Tom Littauer for the many sample images he sent me.

  * New library function OCRAD_set_utf8_format.

  * "configure" now accepts options with a separate argument.

  * Configure option "--datadir" has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to 
follow GNU Standards.

  * The target "install-bin" has been added to the Makefile.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.