ocrad: Ocrad (GNU's Optical Character Recognition program) ocrad: ocrad: GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a ocrad: feature extraction method. It reads images in pbm (bitmap), pgm ocrad: (greyscale) or ppm (color) formats and produces text in byte (8-bit) or ocrad: UTF-8 formats. It includes a layout analyser able to separate the ocrad: columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages. Ocrad can be ocrad: used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to other ocrad: programs such as Kooka in KDE. ocrad: ocrad: Packaged by Georgi D. Sotirov