tesseract/ChangeLog

2010-09-22 - V3.01
  * Thread-safety! Moved all critical globals and statics to
    members of the appropriate class. Tesseract is now
    thread-safe (multiple instances can be used in parallel
    in multiple threads.) with the minor exception that some
    control parameters are still global and affect all threads.
  * Added Cube, a new recognizer for Arabic. Cube can also be
    used in combination with normal Tesseract for other languages
    with an improvement in accuracy at the cost of (much) lower speed.
    There is no training module for Cube yet.
  * OcrEngineMode in Init replaces AccuracyVSpeed to control cube.
  * Greatly improved segmentation search with consequent accuracy and
    speed improvements, especially for Chinese.
  * Added PageIterator and ResultIterator as cleaner ways to get the
    full results out of Tesseract, that are not currently provided
    by any of the TessBaseAPI::Get* methods.
    All other methods, such as the ETEXT_STRUCT in particular are
    deprecated and will be deleted in the future.
  * ApplyBoxes totally rewritten to make training easier.
    It can now cope with touching/overlapping training characters,
    and a new boxfile format allows word boxes instead of character
    boxes, BUT to use that you have to have already boostrapped the
    language with character boxes. "Cyclic dependency" on traineddata.
  * Auto orientation and script detection added to page layout analysis.
  * Deleted *lots* of dead code.
  * Fixxht module replaced with scalable data-driven module.
  * Output font characteristics accuracy improved.
  * Removed the double conversion at each classification.
  * Upgraded oldest structs to be classes and deprecated PBLOB.
  * Removed non-deterministic baseline fit.
  * Added fixed length dawgs for Chinese.
  * Handling of vertical text improved.
  * Handling of leader dots improved.
  * Table detection greatly improved.

2010-09-21 - V3.00
  * Preparations for thread safety:
     * Changed TessBaseAPI methods to be non-static
     * Created a class hierarchy for the directories to hold instance data,
       and began moving code into the classes.
     * Moved thresholding code to a separate class.
  * Added major new page layout analysis module.
  * Added HOCR output (issues 221, 263: thanks to amkryukov).
  * Added Leptonica as main image I/O and handling. Currently optional,
    but in future releases linking with Leptonica will be mandatory.
  * Ambiguity table rewritten to allow definite replacements in place
    of fix_quotes.
  * Added TessdataManager to combine data files into a single file.
  * Some dead code deleted.
  * VC++6 no longer supported. It can't cope with the use of templates.
  * Many more languages added. 
  * Doxygenation of most of the function header comments.
  * Added man pages.
  * Added bash completion script (issue 247: thanks to neskiem)
  * Fix integer overview in thresholding (issue 366: thanks to Cyanide.Drake)
  * Add Danish Fraktur support (issues 300, 360: thanks to 
    dsl602230@vip.cybercity.dk)
  * Fix file pointer leak (issue 359, thanks to yukihiro.nakadaira)
  * Fix an error using user-words (Issue 345: thanks to max.markin)
  * Fix a memory leak in tablefind.cpp (Issue 342, thanks to zdravco)
  * Fix a segfault due to double fclose (Issue 320, thanks to souther)
  * Fix an automake error (Issue 318, thanks to ichanjz)
  * Fix a Win32 crash on fileFormatIsTiff() (Issues 304, 316, 317, 330, 347,
    349, 352: thanks to nguyenq87, max.markin, zdenop)
  * Fixed a number of errors in newer (stricter) versions of VC++ (Issues 
    301, among others)

2010-07-19  gettextize  <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>

	* m4/gettext.m4: New file, from gettext-0.17.
	* m4/iconv.m4: New file, from gettext-0.17.
	* m4/lib-ld.m4: New file, from gettext-0.17.
	* m4/lib-link.m4: New file, from gettext-0.17.
	* m4/lib-prefix.m4: New file, from gettext-0.17.
	* m4/nls.m4: New file, from gettext-0.17.
	* m4/po.m4: New file, from gettext-0.17.
	* m4/progtest.m4: New file, from gettext-0.17.
	* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add po.
	(EXTRA_DIST): Add config/config.rpath.
	* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Add po/Makefile.in.

June  2006 - V1.0 of open source Tesseract checked-in.
Sep 7 2006 - V1.01.
          Added mfcpch.cpp and getopt.cpp for VC++.
          Fixed problem with greyscale images and no libtiff.
          Stopped debug window from being used for the usage output.
          Fixed load of inttemp for big-endian architectures.
          Fixed some Mac compilation issues.
Oct 4 2006 - V1.02
          Removed dependency on Aspirin.
          Fixed a few missing Apache license headers.
          Removed $log.
Feb 2 2007 - V1.03
          Added mftraining and cntraining.
          Added baseapi with adaptive thresholding for grey and color.
          Fixed many memory leaks.
          Fixed several bugs including lack of use of adaptive classifier.
          Added ifdefs to eliminate graphics code and add embedded platform support.
          Incorporated several patches, including 64-bit builds, Mac builds.
          Minor accuracy improvements.
May 15 2007 - V1.04
          Added dll exports for Windows.
          Fixed name collisions with stl etc.
          Made some preliminary changes ready for unicodeization.
          Several bug fixes discovered during unicodeization.
July 02 2007 - V2.00
          Converted internal character handling to UTF8.
          Trained with 6 languages.
          Added unicharset_extractor, wordlist2dawg.
          Added boxfile creation mode.
          Added UNLV regression test capability.
          Fixed problems with copyright and registered symbols.
          Fixed extern "C" declarations problem.
August 27 2007 - V2.01
          Fixed UTF8 input problems with box file reader.
          Fixed various infinite loops and crashes in dawg code.
          Removed include of config_auto.h from host.h.
          Added automatic wctype encoding to unicharset_extractor.
          Fixed dawg table too full error.
          Removed svn files from tarball.
          Added new functions to tessdll.
          Increased maximum utf8 string in a classification result to 8.

January 23 2008 - V2.02
          Improvements to clustering, training and classifier.
          Major internationalization improvements for large-character-set
          languages, eg Kannada.
          Removed some compiler warnings.
          Added multipage tiff support for training and running.
          Updated graphics output to talk to new java-based viewer.
          Added ability to save n-best lists.
          Added leptonica support for more file types.
          Improved Init/End to make them safe.
          Reduced memory use of dictionaries.
          Added some new APIs to TessBaseAPI.
April 21 2008 - V2.02 (again)
          Fixed namespace collisions with jpeg library (INT32).
          Portability fixes for Windows for new code.
          Updates to autoconf system for new code.
April 22 2008 - V2.03
          Fixed crash introduced in 2.02.
	  Fixed lack of tessembedded.cpp in distribution.
	  Added test for leptonica header files and conditional test for lib.
June 30 2009 - V2.04
	  Integrated bug fixes and patches and misc changes for portability.
	  Integrated a patch to remove some of the "access" macros.
	  Removed dependence on lua from the viewer, speeding it up
	  dramatically.
	  Fixed the viewer so it compiles and runs properly!
	  Specifically fixing issues: 1, 63, 67, 71, 76, 81, 82, 106, 111,
	  112, 128, 129, 130, 133, 135, 142, 143, 145, 147, 153, 154, 160,
	  165, 170, 175, 177, 187, 192, 195, 199, 201, 205, 209, 108, 169