What's new in GOCR 0.50
Feb 8, 2014
- just release it to avoid questiions to old problems, give a life sign ;)
- fix 4 parfait problems against 0.48 (thanks to Rich Burridge)
- adding qrcode detection and decoding (no error correction, no skewing)
- spacing slightly improved
- context correction of hex codes (p.e. hex fingerprints)
- some threshold value adaptions (not finished)
- try to fix double output of XML code and removed additional \n
- improved quotation detection ,, ''
- improved monospaced spacing (video text)
New in GOCR 0.49 (Feb 8, 2014)
- fix dot handling for ':' and ';' (vector code)
- fix '@' for 7x9 and 5x8 fonts
- fix double counting of subboxes (affects "0" (zero) with dot in it)
- character "l" of width 1 improved
- bug fix gluing chars ij of width=1
- bug fix thresholding (small gray images)
- return error code -1 on ERROR pnm.c unexpected EOF
- fix conflicts with unicode_defs.h TRUE definition on gcc/alphaev7-osf/3.4
- further fixes for lib by D. Katsubo
- fix #3039007 "struct list" in list.h conflicts with STL (ocr_object_list)
- fix #3039006 INFINITY macro in unicode.h conflicts with math.h
- bugfix barcode 128, switch from mode mC to mA (":1")
- bugfix: MultiPNM + database - ID: 2957140
- improved barcode recognition - ID: 2859644 (bars wider than spaces)
- quality test-script bin/gocr_chk.sh added
- initial datamatrix support (ASCII + ASCII numeric only, no ErrCorrection)
New in GOCR 0.48 (Dec 9, 2009)
- fix buffer overflow introduced in 0.46 for filenames
- add codabar barcode
- fix bug, removing melted serifs
- add patch by Chris Lee, i25 barcode recognition + modifications
- fix some false positive numbers "34" (video, gas meter)
- fix problems with 2zZ4 for 10x10 screen font
- better debug output for :;,.
- remove examples, doc and libs part from configure (see below)
- remove doc and examples from the (make install) part to reduce
- dependencies (gs and transfig is not needed for rpm/ebuild)
- gocr only may depend from netpbm, but can live without too
- this will help to install gocr on "exotic" (nonlinux) platforms
- fix gentoo app-text/gocr Bug 243250 src/Makefile: $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) ...
New in GOCR 0.47 (Mar 30, 2009)
- fix database recognition for certainty 100 (-a 100)
- insert spaces with certainty 100 (old: 99) to let -a 100 work
- new option -u string for unrecognized chars
- fix: No contrast in image causes division by zero
- reduced false positive recognition of scanned "a496" (Gutenberg Project)
- "d as a" patch ID: 1556112
- add "Windows Pipe Fix"
- improve 7x10, sample 0811qemu1.png (ToDo: not finished)
- change black:white from >4:1 to >3.5:1 as criteria of inversion
- reintroduce static library libPgm2asc.a (make libs) for OSRA project
- add dynamic library (make libs), unused but may help other projects
New in GOCR 0.46 (Oct 23, 2008)
- improved context correction (especially helvetica "Il")
- improved recognition of tiny chars "$1", fat "s", "rw" ","
- fix blank spaces problem in filenames
- fix possible problem with database and UTF8 input
- fix hidden bug in pitch/spacing initialization
- reactivate code for output of glued chars and strings
- fix wrong close() call
- remove creation of pgm2asc.a for simplicity (make)