Ocrad
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Ocrad is an optical character recognition program and part of the GNU Project. It is free software licensed under the GNU GPL.
| Ocrad | |
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| Developer | Antonio Diaz Diaz |
| Stable release | |
| 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 |
| Repository | |
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
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]