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GOCR (GNU Optical Character Recognition)

Here you can find OS/2 executables of GOCR Version 0.38 if you want to play with it.
GOCR.EXE is compiled with GCC 3.2.1 (available via ftp from netlabs).
Here is the link:

• GOCR 0.38 compiled with GCC 3.2.1

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 3.2.1:

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