[Bug-ocrad] GNU Ocrad 0.24-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU Ocrad 0.24-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ocrad/ocrad-0.24-rc1.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
58c54d51cf3d47dbc88682993b1fcb035a54469f  ocrad-0.24-rc1.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:

  * Character recognition has been improved. (Merged 'TZ' and 'rt', '9' 
vs 'g', 'A' vs 'R', 'C' vs '(').

  * Several filters can be now applied in sequence using more than one 
"--filter" option.

  * The new filter, "same_height" has been added.

  * The license has been changed to GPL version 2 or later for better 
GPL compatibility. GPLv2 and GPLv2+ programs may use the library now.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.