Erik Auerswald
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This adds information relevant to issue #9 to the README file. Before, the information was added to the ssocr home page and the GitHub issue tracker only.
Seven Segment Optical Character Recognition or ssocr for short is a program to recognize digits of a seven segment display. An image of one row of digits is used for input and the recognized number is written to the standard output. The program runs on GNU/Linux (some GNU/Linux distributions provide an ssocr package), FreeBSD (available as a port as well), Mac OS X (Homebrew can be used to install the library Imlib2, used by ssocr), and even on Windows (using Cygwin). ssocr should work on any UNIX-like or POSIX compatible operating system. Unless ssocr is installed via some packaging system, e.g. from a GNU/Linux distribution, it is distributed in source form and needs to be built before it can be used. See the INSTALL file for instructions on how to build ssocr. A manual for ssocr is available in the form of a man page named ssocr.1, you can read it using "make ssocr.1 && man ./ssocr.1" (without the quotes). You can get the current ssocr version from the official ssocr website: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~auerswal/ssocr/ (Links to ssocr should point to the official website, not to a convenience copy of the development repository, e.g. on GitHub.) I am usually quicker to reply to emails than to GitHub issues. Every file in this repository or archive is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (or later), unless another license is explicitly given in the file itself. This includes all documentation files and the Makefile, and all other files.