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 # ocrad
 
+Ocrad is an OCR program implemented as a filter.
+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 terminal application, or as a backend to other programs.
+
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+Name:          ocrad
+Version:       0.23
+Release:       1mamba
+Summary:       Optical Character Recognition program
+Group:         Applications/Graphics
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Aleph0 <aleph0@openmamba.org>
+URL:           http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html
+Source0:       ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ocrad/ocrad-%{version}.tar.lz
+License:       GPL
+BuildRequires: lzip
+Requires(post):%{__install_info}
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+Ocrad is an OCR program implemented as a filter.
+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 terminal application, or as a backend to other programs.
+
+%package devel
+Summary:       Static libraries and headers for %{name}
+Group:         Development/Libraries
+Requires:      %{name} = %{?epoch:%epoch:}%{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+Ocrad is an OCR program implemented as a filter.
+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 terminal application, or as a backend to other programs.
+
+This package contains static libraries and header files need for development.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%configure
+%make CXXFLAGS="%{optflags}"
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+%makeinstall install-man
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%post
+%install_info %{name}.info
+exit 0
+
+%preun
+%uninstall_info %{name}.info
+exit 0
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_bindir}/ocrad
+%{_mandir}/man1/ocrad.*
+%{_infodir}/ocrad.info.*
+%doc AUTHORS
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_includedir}/ocradlib.h
+%{_libdir}/libocrad.a
+%doc ChangeLog NEWS README
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Mar 26 2014 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 0.23-1mamba
+- automatic version update by autodist
+
+* Fri Jul 26 2013 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 0.22-1mamba
+- update to 0.22
+
+* Wed Jan 12 2011 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 0.21-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Thu Jul 22 2010 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 0.20-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Sun May 09 2010 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 0.19-1mamba
+- automatic update by autodist
+
+* Wed Jul 15 2009 Automatic Build System <autodist@mambasoft.it> 0.18-1mamba
+- update to 0.18
+
+* Mon Jul 02 2007 Aleph0 <aleph0@openmamba.org> 0.17-1mamba
+- update to 0.17
+
+* Mon Oct 23 2006 Davide Madrisan <davide.madrisan@qilinux.it> 0.16-1qilnx
+- update to version 0.16 by autospec
+
+* Wed Apr 26 2006 Davide Madrisan <davide.madrisan@qilinux.it> 0.15-1qilnx
+- update to version 0.15 by autospec
+
+* Mon Feb 13 2006 Davide Madrisan <davide.madrisan@qilinux.it> 0.13-2qilnx
+- rebuilt
+
+* Tue Jan 24 2006 Stefano Cotta Ramusino <stefano.cotta@qilinux.it> 0.13-1qilnx
+- update to version 0.13 by autospec
+- spec file fixed and updated
+
+* Thu Jun 09 2005 Alessandro Ramazzina <alessandro.ramazzina@qilinux.it> 0.12-1qilnx
+- new version
+
+* Thu Apr 21 2005 Alessandro Ramazzina <alessandro.ramazzina@qilinux.it> 0.11-2qilnx
+- rebuild and moved from devel-contrib repository to devel repository
+
+* Fri Feb 18 2005 Matteo Bernasconi <voyagernm@virgilio.it> 0.11-1qilnx
+- new release
+
+* Wed Sep 07 2004 Matteo Bernasconi <voyagernm@virgilio.it> 0.8-1qilnx
+- first build
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