GOCR (GNU Optical Character Recognition)

Here you can find OS/2 executables of GOCR Version 0.3.6 if you want to play with it.
GOCR.EXE is compiled with GCC 3.0.3 (available via ftp from netlabs).
You need EMX and you might need gcc303m.dll. if you get an errormessage about 'gcc303m not found'
Here is the link:

• GOCR 0.3.6 compiled with GCC 3.0.3

The project homepage of GOCR is: http://jocr.sourceforge.net

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 3.0.3:

1. get and install os2unix
2. delete make.bat
3. os2unix -all
4. sh configure
5. (probably only if you use 2.0 of os2unix) remove the 3 lines

   ifeq ($(omf),on)
       LIBOBJS := $(LIBOBJS:.o=.obj)
   endif
   

   after
   LIBOBJS = pgm2asc.$(obj) \
   from src/Makefile
6. make
   

Compiling wiht emx-gcc required 2 more steps:

1. copy src\libPgm2asc.a src\Pgm2asc.a
2. make

Franz Bakan, 4. April 2006