Version 0.16 of GNU Ocrad released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Ocrad 0.16.

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:
11436dd04e65a1e15ea62c2e2f26a4fa  ocrad-0.16.tar.bz2

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

Changes in version 0.16:

* A new option "--filter" has been added.

* The algorithm for vertical space detection (blank lines) has been 
improved.

* Some fixes to the "configure" script has been made.

* Two new debug levels has been added.

* Character recognition has been improved.


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.