<s>
GOCR	B-Language
(	O
or	O
JOCR	B-Language
)	O
is	O
a	O
free	B-Application
optical	B-Application
character	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
program	O
,	O
initially	O
written	O
by	O
Jörg	O
Schulenburg	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
convert	O
or	O
scan	B-Application
image	I-Application
files	O
(	O
portable	O
pixmap	O
or	O
PCX	O
)	O
into	O
text	B-General_Concept
files	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
GOCR	B-Language
claims	O
it	O
can	O
handle	O
single-column	O
sans-serif	O
fonts	O
of	O
20	O
–	O
60	O
pixels	O
in	O
height	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GOCR	B-Language
can	O
also	O
translate	O
barcodes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GOCR	B-Language
can	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
a	O
stand-alone	O
command-line	B-Application
application	O
,	O
or	O
as	O
a	O
back-end	B-Architecture
to	O
other	O
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
comes	O
with	O
a	O
gocr.tcl	O
graphic	B-Application
interface	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
GOCR	B-Language
can	O
be	O
also	O
used	O
as	O
an	O
OCR	O
engine	O
in	O
OCRFeeder	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
application	O
was	O
originally	O
named	O
GOCR	B-Language
which	O
stands	O
for	O
GNU	B-Language
Optical	I-Language
Character	I-Language
Recognition	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
it	O
came	O
time	O
to	O
register	O
the	O
project	O
on	O
SourceForge	B-Application
the	O
name	O
GOCR	B-Language
was	O
already	O
taken	O
so	O
the	O
project	O
was	O
registered	O
as	O
JOCR	B-Language
(	O
Jörg	O
's	O
Optical	B-Application
Character	I-Application
Recognition	I-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
result	O
of	O
this	O
situation	O
the	O
project	O
and	O
application	O
are	O
known	O
as	O
both	O
GOCR	B-Language
and	O
JOCR	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
formats	O
are	O
automatically	O
converted	O
using	O
netpbm-progs	O
,	O
gzip	B-Application
and	O
bzip2	B-Application
via	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
a	O
unix	O
pipe	O
.	O
</s>
