Erik Auerswald
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Many people, including packagers for GNU/Linux distributions, seem to think that ssocr is a "GitHub project." It is not. It is older than GitHub and may well exist longer that GitHub. It is older than git. The official website contains documentation not found on GitHub. GitHub is just use as a currently convenient way to have an external copy, a backup, of the development repository. This does provide third parties with access to the developent code and its history as an added benefit. The "added value" of GitHub (issues, pull requests, ...) is meaningless to me and may be abandoned anytime. The contents of the official website will be preserved even if it needs to be moved. The development history has already been preserved during the migration from subversion to git.
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, FreeBSD (available as a port), Mac OS X (using Homebrew to install Imlib2), and even on Windows (using Cygwin). ssocr should work on any UNIX-like or POSIX compatible operating system. 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.