open-source character recognition

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About

GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and was leading the team of developers on SF, and after 2010 still manages the package at a (very) low time base.
GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been improving in a daily basis until 2010.

GOCR or JOCR?

The original name is GOCR. It's what is used internally in the sources. But, when registering the site at Sourceforge (year 2000), gocr was already taken. So, it's kind of both as long it will be hosted at SF.

News

2018-12-31

Main page is at Uni-Magdeburg (since 2015, SF adds to much web bloat)

2018-10-15

GOCR 0.52 has been released. Little improvements see HISTORY. Not uploaded to SF yet.

2017-08-05

GOCR 0.51 has been released. Little improvements see HISTORY. Not uploaded to SF yet.

2013-03-05

GOCR 0.50 has been released. Not uploaded to SF yet.

2010-09-24

GOCR 0.49 has been released.

2009-08-04

GOCR 0.48 has been released. Sorry, because of new JavaScript functionalities I had difficulties to upload to SF download page. JavaScript is nerving and dangerous if used unnecessarily!

2008-10-22

GOCR 0.46 has been released. Sorry for the new Source Forge sites (now needing Javascript enabled). Also the gocr-webpage on SF was temporarely unavailable.

2007-03-01

GOCR 0.44 has been released. Bugs of last release 0.43 and speed problems with this lovely gif-images showing very important product information send to me and most of you or your email filter are fixed. There are still problems with the threshold value. Please use -l or wait for one of the next versions. Its on my ToDo-List.

December 12, 2006

GOCR 0.43 has been released. Bugs of last release 0.42 are fixed and two major features are added (white on black detection and multiple image support). Please dont use 0.42 anymore.

December 5, 2006

GOCR 0.42 has been released. New progress output. Bug fixes and recognition engine is partly replaced by vector version (see ChangeLog for details).

August 30, 2006

GOCR 0.41 has been released. It is not a big progress, but there are lot of bug fixes, tiny improvements and new ideas which make gocr more useful. (It's buggy! Please apply the pgm-patch)

June 24, 2005

Meet me on the Accessiblity Forum (www.linaccess.org/view.php?pageid=4300 gone) of the LinuxTag 2005 (website gone) in Karlsruhe/Germany. The Accessiblity Forum is organized by linaccess (linaccess.org). Linaccess is a non commercial project supporting free software for disabled people. Their goal is to make the free operating system Linux an acceptable and accessible choice for disabled people.

May 19, 2005

GOCR 0.40 Win-binary on the download page. www.about280.com/gocr.html Win-Frontend by Ashleigh Gordon. (gone)
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The main engine of GOCR will be rewritten completely. During that time some characters will be recognized by the new engine, whereas the rest is still recognized by the old engine. The number of characters handled by the new engine will increase stepwise in the next releases, so dont wonder if old solved problems appear again. Just tell me in that cases. I dont have enough time to test all the old samples you probably send me. Also new features will be added. Hopefully GOCR becomes faster and better within the next months.

March 13, 2005

GOCR 0.40 has been released.

February 13, 2004

GOCR 0.39 has been released. (try barcode!)

December 22, 2003

GOCR 0.38 has been released. Please test it!

October 14, 2003

GOCR compiled for Zeta (yellowtab.com gone) by Bernd T. Korz (btk@yellowtab.com). Do you remember on BeOS?

August 11, 2002

GOCR 0.37 has been released. Please test it!

February 03, 2002

GOCR 0.3.5 has been released. Get it now!

DOS/WIN-binary GOCR.EXE 0.3.5p1 available

October 7, 2001

libgocr 0.7.2. has been released.

April 30, 2001

GOCR was successfully used at the first implementation of RFC 1149 (IP over avian carrier), which was made by the Bergen Linux Users Group (http://www.blug.linux.no/ gone).

April 4, 2001

The API library, libgocr, is publicly available. This is a first beta version, (which means that whatever is there will probably work ;). Learn more about it. BTW: some major Linux distributions are interested in GOCR. Soon in a CD near you!

February 17, 2001

GOCR has been divided in two parts: an API library, which supports modules, and a main module, which is basicly the current code modified to be compatible with the API. The new API is being done, and I hope that a stable version will be soon available for download. Meanwhile, if you want to see how the things are going, grab it using CVS.

December 10, 2000

New version (0.3.0) is online!

December 2, 2000

New design of the web pages, main site moved to Sourceforge.

Review

We are under major reengineering. Contact the developers (or, better yet, send to the mailing list) if you want to help. See Support.