<s>
Ocrad	B-Language
is	O
an	O
optical	B-Application
character	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
program	O
and	O
part	O
of	O
the	B-Application
GNU	I-Application
Project	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
licensed	B-License
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
GPL	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
Based	O
on	O
a	O
feature	B-Algorithm
extraction	I-Algorithm
method	O
,	O
it	O
reads	O
images	O
in	O
portable	O
pixmap	O
formats	O
known	O
as	O
Portable	O
anymap	O
and	O
produces	O
text	O
in	O
byte	O
(	O
8-bit	O
)	O
or	O
UTF-8	O
formats	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ocrad	B-Language
can	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
a	O
stand-alone	O
command-line	B-Application
application	O
or	O
as	O
a	O
back-end	B-Architecture
to	O
other	O
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kooka	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
the	O
KDE	B-Application
environment	O
's	O
default	O
scanning	O
application	O
until	O
KDE	B-Application
4	O
,	O
can	O
use	O
Ocrad	B-Language
as	O
its	O
OCR	O
engine	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
conversion	O
to	O
newer	O
Qt	O
versions	O
,	O
current	O
versions	O
of	O
KDE	B-Application
no	O
longer	O
contain	O
Kooka	O
;	O
development	O
continues	O
in	O
the	O
KDE	B-Application
git	O
repository	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ocrad	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>
Ocrad	B-Language
has	O
been	O
developed	O
by	O
Antonio	O
Diaz	O
Diaz	O
since	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
C++	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Archives	O
of	O
the	O
bug-ocrad	O
mailing	O
list	O
go	O
back	O
to	O
October	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
