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Lept4J v1.2.3 Release

Lept4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Leptonica Image Processing Library, provides support for Leptonica native types and data structures — such as Pix, Boxa, Pixa, etc. — used in Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes more API methods related to box array operations

http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/lept4j.html

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2016-05-29

Tess4J v3.2 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following enhancements:

  • Revert JNA to 4.1.0 due to "Invalid calling convention 63" errors invoking GhostScript via Ghost4J on Linux
  • Update Lept4J to 1.2.2 (Leptonica 1.73)
  • Recompile Tesseract 3.04.01 DLL against Leptonica 1.73
  • Update GhostScript Windows binary to 9.19

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2016-05-17

Lept4J v1.2.2 Release

Lept4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Leptonica Image Processing Library, provides support for Leptonica native types and data structures — such as Pix, Boxa, Pixa, etc. — used in Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following features:

  • Implement removeLines method
  • Add back a few methods accidentally commented out
  • Revert jna to 4.1.0
  • Include more API methods related to TIFF and PNG

http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/lept4j.html

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2016-05-17

Tess4J v3.1 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following enhancements:

  • Update Tesseract to 3.04.01 (4ef68a0)
  • Use Lept4J-1.1.2 (Leptonica 1.72)
  • Delete ResultRenderer after use to release PDF file handler

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2016-03-22

Lept4J v1.2 Release

Lept4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Leptonica Image Processing Library, provides support for Leptonica native types and data structures — such as Pix, Boxa, Pixa, etc. — used in Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following features:

  • Upgrade to Leptonica 1.73

http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/lept4j.html

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2016-03-19

Lept4J v1.1.2 Release

Lept4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Leptonica Image Processing Library, provides support for Leptonica native types and data structures — such as Pix, Boxa, Pixa, etc. — used in Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following features:

  • Update jna-4.2.2
  • Update jai-imageio-1.3.1

http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/lept4j.html

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2016-03-18

Tess4J v3.0 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following enhancements:

  • Upgrade to Tesseract 3.04 (953523b)
  • Include Lept4J library
  • Incorporate slf4j and logback libraries for logging
  • Make GhostScript calls thread safe

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2015-12-25

Lept4J v1.1.1 Release

Lept4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Leptonica Image Processing Library, provides support for Leptonica native types and data structures — such as Pix, Boxa, Pixa, etc. — used in Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following features:

  • Update JNA 4.2.1
  • Additional test cases

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2015-11-15

Lept4J v1.0.1 Release

Lept4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Leptonica Image Processing Library, provides support for Leptonica native types and data structures — such as Pix, Boxa, Pixa, etc. — used in Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following features:

  • Backport improvements made in 1.1

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2015-11-15

Lept4J v1.1 Release

Lept4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Leptonica Image Processing Library, provides support for Leptonica native types and data structures — such as Pix, Boxa, Pixa, etc. — used in Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following features:

• Upgrade to Leptonica 1.72
• Additional use cases

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2015-08-22

Lept4J v1.0 Release

Lept4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Leptonica Image Processing Library, provides support for Leptonica native types and data structures — such as Pix, Boxa, Pixa, etc. — used in Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following features:

  • Autoload Leptonica 1.71 Windows 32- and 64-bit binaries embedded in JAR
  • Support for image conversion between Leptonica Pix vs Java BufferedImage

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2015-08-01

Tess4J v2.0 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following enhancements:

  • Upgrade to Tesseract 3.03 (r1050), which is compatible with Tesseract 3.03RC on Linux
  • Refactor Tesseract class for extensibility and thread-safety
  • Update English language data for Tesseract 3.02

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2015-03-30

Tess4J v1.5 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release, redesignated from 1.4.2 to indicate a minor API change, includes the following enhancements:

  • Add UNLV zone file support
  • Refactor

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2015-03-11

Tess4J v1.4.1 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following enhancement:

  • Enable use of jna.library.path system property for user-customizable path

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2015-01-25

Tess4J v1.4 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following enhancements:

  • Refactor to reduce code duplication
  • Embed Windows native resources in JAR
  • Autoload Windows native libraries

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2015-01-18

Tess4J v1.3 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes the following enhancements:

  • Update JNA to v4.1.0
  • Update Ghost4J to v0.5.1
  • Refactoring
  • Bundle Tesseract and Leptonica 64-bit DLLs

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2014-05-31

Tess4J v1.2 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes:

  • Update Tesseract DLL to r866
  • More efficient OCR of multiple images
  • Various minor improvements
  • Update JNA to v4.0

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2013-09-22

Tess4J v1.1 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes:

  • Update Tesseract to r828
  • Additional API methods, image helper methods, and unit test cases
  • Improve handling of Unicode character encoding
  • Fix memory leaks
  • Add support for determining skew angle and image rotation

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2013-03-03

Tess4J v1.0 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release includes:

- Upgrade to Tesseract 3.02 (r798)
- Implement a new JNA wrapper for the new Tesseract OCR API
- Add more unit test cases
- Update documentation

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2012-11-03

Tess4J v0.4 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR DLL 2.04.

This release includes:

- Add JNA Direct Mapping calls, which can provide performance near that of custom JNI

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2010-11-02

Tess4J v0.3.1 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR DLL 2.04.

This release includes:

- Fix a bug that has erroneously put some words at beginning of line towards end of line

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2010-08-26

Tess4J v0.3 Release

Tess4J, a Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR DLL 2.04.

This release includes:

- Support for BufferedImage
- Clean up codes. Remove unsupported API and files
- Document the API

http://tess4j.sf.net

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2010-08-23

Tess4J v0.2 Release

Tess4J, a Java wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

This release adds support for:

- more image formats (PNG, BMP, GIF, PDF, etc.)
- compressed, grayscale and colored images

Posted by Quan Nguyen 2010-08-17