Here you can find OS/2 executables of GOCR Version 0.3.5 if you want to play with it.
There are two packages available. One compiled with GCC 3.0.2 and one compiled with WATCOM.
The GCC 3.0.2 - version is a little bit faster on my machine.
Here are the links:

• GOCR 0.3.5 compiled with GCC 3.0.2
• GOCR 0.3.5 compiled with WATCOM C-Compiler

OCR-Quality has improved in relation to the 0.3.4 - version.

Usage:

• Type gocr -h for usage.
• Example 'one-liner' of a scan2text.cmd:
  scanimage --device=epson --mode=Gray --resolution=300 | gocr - > textfile.txt
• Another example:
  scanimage --device=epson --mode=Gray --resolution=300 1>out.pnm 2>out.error && gocr out.pnm > ocr.txt

Hints:

• If the image is complex or the letters are small, gocr is quite slooow. (expect duration of serveral minutes!).
• I suggest that you make your first tests with small scans.

How to compile:

• with GCC 3.0.2
  1. get and install os2unix
  2. os2unix -all
  3. delete make.bat
  4. sh configure
  5. make
     Compiling wiht emx-gcc required 2 more steps:
  6. copy src\libPgm2asc.a src\Pgm2asc.a
  7. make
• with WATCOM
  1. get and install the openwatcom compiler
  2. copy time.h containing:

          #if !defined (_TIMEVAL)
          #define _TIMEVAL
          struct timeval
          {
            long tv_sec;
            long tv_usec;
          };
          #endif
        

     to x:\WATCOM\h\sys
  3. Open watcom ide and create a new projectfile with the name gocr.wpj in ...\gocr-0.3.5\src\
     chose OS/2 - 32-bit executable
  4. Add all the .h and .c files in ...\gocr-0.3.5\src\ to the source-code-list of the project (gocr.exe window)
  5. Actions -> make all

Known limitations of the WATCOM - Version:

• It doesn't report elapsed time because gettimeofday() does not exist in Watcom-Libs