Ocrad
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| Developer(s) | Antonio Diaz Diaz |
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| Stable release | 0.29[1]  / 18 January 2024 |
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| Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, macOS |
| Type | Optical character recognition |
| License | 2014: GPL-2.0-or-later[a] 2007: GPL-3.0-or-later[b] 2003: GPL-2.0-or-later[c] |
| Website | gnu.org/s/ocrad |
Ocrad is an optical character recognition program and part of the GNU Project. It is free software licensed under the GNU GPL.
Based on a feature extraction method, it reads images in portable pixmap formats known as Portable anymap and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats. Also included is a layout analyser, able to separate the columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages.
User interface
[edit]Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone command-line application or as a back-end to other programs.
Kooka, which was the KDE environment's default scanning application until KDE 4, can use Ocrad as its OCR engine.[2] Since conversion to newer Qt versions, current versions of KDE no longer contain Kooka; development continues in the KDE git repository.[3] Ocrad can be also used as an OCR engine in OCRFeeder.[4]
History
[edit]Ocrad has been developed by Antonio Diaz Diaz since 2003. Version 0.7 was released in February 2004, 0.14 in February 2006 and 0.18 in May 2009. It is written in C++.
Archives of the bug-ocrad mailing list go back to October 2003.[5]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Antonio Diaz Diaz (20 January 2024). "GNU Ocrad 0.29 released". Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "Kooka home page". Archived from the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "KDE Kooka git source code commit log". Retrieved 30 March 2019.
- ^ "GNOME GIT source code repository". Retrieved 3 February 2010.
- ^ "bug-ocrad Archives". Retrieved 20 July 2010.