On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:45:25AM +0200, Antonio Diaz wrote: > Hello to all. > > I am the developer of the project ocrad, hosted at > https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ocrad/ . > > This message is to notify you about the existence of Ocrad. I would be > very glad to see Ocrad included in Debian, but I haven't got the time to > become a Debian developer. > > 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 outputs text in ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) charset. > It can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to > other programs. > > The latest version of ocrad can be found at > http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/ocrad/ocrad_0.2.tar.bz2 .
The recommended way to get this in to Debian is to file a Request for Package (RFP) bug for the software you want included, in this case ocrad. You can use the reportbug program to do this easily. For more information, see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/. - David Nusinow