GreekOCR Toolkit for Gamera
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Purpose
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"Optical character recognition" (OCR) means the extraction of the
text content from a document image.

This toolkit provides methods and a ready-to-run script for recognizing
polytonal Greek texts, i.e. classical Greek with variable use of accents.


Requirements
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This toolkit has been written for the Gamera framework and requires
a working Gamera installation. See the Gamera homepage:

	http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/

Moreover, it is based on the OCR toolkit for Gamera and requires a
working installation of this toolkit that is available from the
"Addons" section of the Gamera homepage.


Documentation
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For a user's guide and a developer's guide see 'doc/html/index.html'.
For release notes and a revision history see 'CHANGES'.


Installation
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See the section "Installation" in 'doc/html/index.html' or 
'doc/src/index.txt'.


Authors
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Christian Brandt, 2011
Christoph Dalitz, <christoph dot dalitz at hsnr dot de>, 2011

Please contact Christoph Dalitz for questions about this toolkit.


License
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This toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 2
of the license, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
file LICENSE for more details.
