[Bug-ocrad] GNU Ocrad 0.27 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Ocrad 0.27.

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

Ocrad includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or blocks 
of text normally found on printed pages.

Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend 
to other programs.

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 sha256sum is:
a9bfe67e9a040907aff5640dca56392476b6a89e48e37dc94ba846c5b6733b36 
ocrad-0.27.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending '.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because 
you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 0.27:

  * This is a maintenance release.

  * A GCC warning about catching std::bad_alloc by value has been 
fixed. (Thanks to Mohammad Akhlaghi).

  * Errors are now also checked when closing the input file.

  * The configure script now accepts appending options to CXXFLAGS 
using the syntax 'CXXFLAGS+=OPTIONS'.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer.

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