[Bug-ocrad] Version 0.22 of GNU Ocrad released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Ocrad 0.22.

Ocrad is the GNU OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program and library.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html

The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ocrad/ 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ocrad/ or from your favorite 
GNU mirror.

The md5sum is:
e84f0fb0dcd9b7b067201f9a3b89e06c  ocrad-0.22.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending ".sig" to the URL.

Changes in version 0.22:

  * Scaling and smoothing are now made before thresholding.

  * Character recognition has been improved. (D-O, H-N, O-Q, V-Y, 
merged TT).

  * New library function OCRAD_set_utf8_format.

  * Small improvements have been made in the manual and in the man page.

  * Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU 
Coding Standards.

  * The configure script now accepts options with a separate argument.

  * Configure option "--datadir" has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to 
follow GNU Standards.

  * The target "install-bin" has been added to the Makefile.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.