Ocrad version 0.18 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Thursday the 18th of March, 2010

    version 0.18

      View the most recent changes for the ocrad port at: ocrad.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for ocrad.
      The raw portfile for ocrad 0.18 is located here:
      http://ocrad.darwinports.com/dports/graphics/ocrad/Portfile
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      The ocrad Portfile 50906 2009-05-12 16:44:10Z mww macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: ocrad
      Version: 0.18
      Category: graphics
      Platform: darwin
      Maintainers: mww
      Description: ocrad is an optical character recognition program
      Long Description: GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads a bitmap image in pbm format and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats.

      Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html
      Master Sites: gnu
      Checksums: md5 5d2d39e218d7f219e53c08ce07556d66 sha1 6168dd37dd5ee71a1b1814bbccf2b89c1bcf732f rmd160 471658e7f50ca1ccf3ff773df3639014c450e028

      configure.args CC=${configure.cc} CXX=${configure.cxx} CPPFLAGS=${configure.cppflags} CFLAGS=${configure.cflags} CXXFLAGS=${configure.cxxflags} LDFLAGS=${configure.ldflags}

      test.run yes
      test.target check

      destroot.target install install-man


    If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

    Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


      %  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/ocrad
      % sudo port install ocrad
      Password:
    You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

      ---> Fetching ocrad
      ---> Verifying checksum for ocrad
      ---> Extracting ocrad
      ---> Configuring ocrad
      ---> Building ocrad with target all
      ---> Staging ocrad into destroot
      ---> Installing ocrad
    - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using ocrad with these commands:
      %  man ocrad
      % apropos ocrad
      % which ocrad
      % locate ocrad

     Where to find more information:

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