Pattern-lab is a pattern recognition program. It is optimized for OCR, but not constrained to it. The method used is mainly 'pattern matching'. Separation of merged patterns is one of the main goals. It is currently under development.
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This release adds a new method for unconnected patterns, a new statistics feature that displays images, the toolkit offers the distance transform, and an automatic mode is added to the salt-and-pepper filter.