Version 0.14 of GNU Ocrad released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Ocrad 0.14.

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.

The md5sum is:
6a72f723175e799cc72b81b96793491f  ocrad-0.14.tar.bz2

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

Changes in version 0.14:

* Ocrad is now able to read ppm (color) files.

* The internal representation is now a 256-level greymap instead of a 
bitmap.

* Automatic and adaptive binarization has been added, allowing the 
removal of colored backgrounds.

* A new option `--crop' has been added.

* Two new chapters `Image Format Conversion' and `Algorithm' have been 
added to the texinfo file.

* Target `check' has been added to Makefile.

* Some fixes and small improvements have been made.


Improving Ocrad is costly, but you can help!  We are looking for
organizations that find Ocrad useful and wish to contribute back.

Please send bug reports and suggestions to <address@hidden>.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.