GNU Ocrad (Optical Character Recognition) for OS/2 / eComStation

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From the README:
"GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a feature extraction method.
It reads images in pbm (bitmap), pgm (greyscale) or ppm (color) formats and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats.
The pbm, pgm and ppm formats are collectively known as pnm.
Ocrad includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages."

Author:
Antonio Diaz Diaz

The project homepage of GNU Ocrad is: http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html

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I built OS/2 - executables of GNU Ocrad. Here is the link to the latest version:

• GNU Ocrad 0.18 compiled for OS/2
• Additional needed to run the program: gcc-3.3.5-csd3-runtime (libc063.dll)
• Use 'ocrad --help' for usage instructions.
  For the rest see README

Building for OS/2 is easy using a standard toolset and GCC 3.3.5 for OS/2

• Unpack the sources
• sh configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr
• add '-Zomf' to the 'CXXFLAGS' in Makefile
• add '-Zomf -s' to the 'LDFLAGS' in Makefile
• make
• (optional) convert ocrad.texinfo to ocrad.html using texi2html.cmd

Here is the link to the previous version:

• GNU Ocrad 0.17 compiled for OS/2

Franz Bakan, 12. May 2009