OCRFeeder is an optical character recognition suite for GNOME, which also supports virtually any command-line OCR engine, such as CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad and Tesseract.

OCRFeeder is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.

[6] The OCRFeeder project was initially published and hosted on Google Code, temporarily used Gitorious[7] and now uses the GNOME infrastructure.

[9] Version 0.7 from July 30, 2010, brought image pre-processing features, 0.7.1 (November 8, 2010) enabled for scanner access from within OCRFeeder.

OCR back-ends may be either auto-configured, the necessary command line entered in a GUI dialogue or configured directly via a XML file.

For example, it does not make actual character recognition itself, but uses external programs such as an “OCR engine” that is installed on the system.

It can automatically detect and configure CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad and Tesseract as backend OCR engines.