ocrad: GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program ocrad: implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method. ocrad: It reads a bitmap image in pbm or pgm format and produces text in ocrad: byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats. ocrad: ocrad: Also includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or ocrad: blocks of text normally found on printed pages. ocrad: ocrad: Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend ocrad: to other programs. ocrad: