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"Optical character recognition" (OCR) means the extraction of the
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text content from a document image.
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- python library functions for building custom ocr applications
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- a ready to use script ocr4gamera
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This toolkit has been written for the Gamera framework and requires
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a working Gamera installation. See the Gamera homepage:
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http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/
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For a user's guide and a developer's guide see 'doc/html/index.html'.
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For release notes and a revision history see 'CHANGES'.
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A comprehensive overview of design, usage and customization of the OCR
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toolkit can be found in the paper
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C. Dalitz, R. Baston: Optical Character Recognition with the
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Gamera Framework. In C. Dalitz (Ed.): "Document Image Analysis
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with the Gamera Framework." Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs
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Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Hochschule Niederrhein, vol. 8,
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pp. 53-65, Shaker Verlag (2009)
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See the section "Installation" in 'doc/html/index.html' or
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Christoph Dalitz, <christoph dot dalitz at hsnr dot de>, 2009
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Please contact Christoph Dalitz for questions about this toolkit.
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This toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 2
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of the license, or (at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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file LICENSE for more details.