GOCR-0.37

Introduction to GOCR

The GOCR contains a small OCR (Object Character Recognition) program. It is useful for reading text from a graphical input file. It works without training, but you'll need a high quality scan to get a good results.

GOCR can used as a console utility, but there is an GTK front end in the source package, also.

Package information

GOCR dependencies

Optional

TeX-2.0.2 or fig2dev (for examples), XFree86-4.3.0.1 and GTK+-1.2.10 (for front end only)

Installation of GOCR

Install GOCR by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

To install the GTK front end, use the following commands:

cd frontend/gnome &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

To install the help:

make help

To install the documentation:

make doc

To run tests on GOCR:

make examples

Contents

The GOCR package contains gocr and gtk-ocr.

Description

gocr

gocr is a program that prints all text it can read from any graphical input file to stdout.

gtk-ocr

gtk-ocr is the GTK front end for gocr.