Package ocrad-0.20-1

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. The pbm, pgm and ppm formats are collectively known as pnm.

For better results the characters should be at least 20 pixels high. Merged characters are always a problem. Try to avoid them. Very bold or very light (broken) characters are also a problem. Always see with your own eyes the pnm file before blaming ocrad for the results. Remember the saying, "garbage in, garbage out". Try "ocrad --help" for usage instructions.