Re: Ocrad project - an OCR program
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:45:25AM +0200, Antonio Diaz wrote:
> Hello to all.
>
> I am the developer of the project ocrad, hosted at
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ocrad/ .
>
> This message is to notify you about the existence of Ocrad. I would be
> very glad to see Ocrad included in Debian, but I haven't got the time to
> become a Debian developer.
>
> Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program implemented as a
> filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads a bitmap image
> in pbm format and outputs text in ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) charset.
> It can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to
> other programs.
>
> The latest version of ocrad can be found at
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/ocrad/ocrad_0.2.tar.bz2 .
The recommended way to get this in to Debian is to file a Request for
Package (RFP) bug for the software you want included, in this case
ocrad. You can use the reportbug program to do this easily. For more
information, see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/.
- David Nusinow
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