October 20 2001 - Added "test" target to the Makefile.
                  Added sselect, fselect and bselect. These are required
                  to implement an auto-test feature. A prototype
                  is already available (try "make test").
                  Fixed a display bug when filling text input fields.
                  Release 0.9.8.

October 18 2001 - Copied the development files to the net (20011018).
                  Fixed a i64 bug.

October 17 2001 - Fixed a bug at recog_validation() (reported by
                  Stuart Yeates).
                  Fixed a bug at event.c (zoom- now correctly
                  repositionates the page).

October 16 2001 - Skeleton code became (more) 20% faster due to
                  optimizations at skel() and cb_border() (the W and H
                  parameters, and the i64 optimization flag, used
                  used there to handle 8 pixels at a time when converting
                  to 8bpp).
                  Added BIG_ENDIAN compilation flag (see clara.c), however
                  this is a work in progress.

October 15 2001 - Changed BC to MBB along the manual.
                  Skeleton code became 20% faster due to optimizations at
                  bmcmp_skel().

October 12 2001 - Gave up using the Brazilian Constitution (BC) files as
                  example. Due to the small clearance, it's hard to obtain
                  good results (a larger resolution should solve the
                  problems). Now trying Manuel Bernardes Branco
                  Dictionary (MBB).
                  Added a new strategy to selthresh.pl (see the variables
                  'clean' and 'small').

October 8 2001 - Finished "A first OCR Project".
                 copied the development files to the net (20011008).

October 6 2001 - Romeu's RPMs added to the download page.
                 Fixed a pattern comparison bug.
                 Optimized memory copies at bmpcmp_skel.

October 5 2001 - Added ab_mem and test_ab_mem.
                 Added switches -l and -y to selthresh.pl.
                 Added -T command-line switch.
                 Robustified selthresh.pl.

October 4 2001 - Purchased a Genius HR5 scanner. This scanner is supported
                 by the SANE UMAX backend.

October 3 2001 - Romeu Mantovani Jr contributed a clara.spec file (to
                 produce RPMs).

October 2 2001 - Fixed a problem at mk_page_output, reported by Laurent-jan.

October 1 2001 - Computed the thresholds for "Exclamations" (Therese of Avila)
                 using selthresh.pl.
                 Began reviewing the documentation to release 0.9.8.

September 28 2001 - copied the development files to the net (20010928).

September 27 2001 - Tests using Emile's binarizer.

September 26 2001 - Uploaded the new results for the Candido de Figueiredo
                    Dictionary.
                    Various optimizations at bmpcmp_pd.

September 25 2001 - Fixed bug at cml.c (the release 20010924 is unable to
                    read dumps).
                    Adopted per-classifier minimum scores.
                    New feature: "re-scan all paterns" ("Edit" menu).
                    Tests using the pixel distance classifier to handle
                    symbols not classified using skeletons (good results,
                    but slow).

September 24 2001 - copied the development files to the net (20010924).
                    New feature: "Show line (geometrical)" ("View" menu).
                    New feature: "Display boxes instead of symbols"
                    ("Options" menu).
                    As the "View" menu became too large, we've moved some
                    entries to the "Options" menu.

September 21 2001 - word alignment tests robustified.

September 20 2001 - Tested Emile's deskewer.
                    Added the pattern bitmaps to the Pattern (types)
                    tab (first step to create a manual baseline adjusting
                    tool).
                    Added (horizontal) support to CELLSPACING attribute
                    of TABLE elements.

September 19 2001 - New feature: "set pattern type" (Edit menu).
                    Fixed some renderization problems when
                    dismissing menus.
                    Changed the structure ptdesc.

September 18 2001 - Four buttons became read-only (alphabet, pattern
                    type, bold and italic).
                    The service enter_wait now supports mode 4 to
                    read a string.

September 17 2001 - Fixed the web interface. The section "how to
                    use the web interface" became more detailed
                    (thanks Erich Mueller).
                    Skeleton parameters are global again, but it's
                    still possible to use the per-pattern behaviour
                    (see the PATT_SKEL compilation macro).

September 15 2001 - Case study based on the recent tests available
                    at http://www.claraocr.org/cf-test/
                    copied the development files to the net (20010915).

September 10-15 2001 - Tests using Candido de Figueiredo Dictionary,
                       4th edition. Various small fixes or
                       adjustments: pgmblock improved, display
                       the type 0 absent symbols, avoidance of common
                       false positives (the classification now must be
                       performed at least two times), alignment
                       problems diagnosed, etc.

September 8 2001 - Fixed: segfaults caused by changing properties of
                   untransliterated symbols (reported by Erich Mueller).
                   copied the development files to the net (20010903).

September 7 2001 - Added "search unexpected mismatches" feature to
                   prepare_patterns and to the Options menu. This
                   is a tool to detect cases where the behaviour
                   of the classificator is bad.
                   Fixed a classificator bug. This bug
                   was producing occasional false positives.

September 6 2001 - Bruno Barbieri Gnecco will adapt pgmblock to
                   be used through libgocr. This is a first tentative
                   to make Clara OCR compatable with libgocr.

September 5 2001 - pgmblock, a simple text block locator
                   for PGM files, is working.

September 4 2001 - Added -a command line option.
                   selthresh.pl, a simple script for
                   selecting the best threshold when converting PGM
                   to PBM, is working.

September 3 2001 - Terran Melconian reported a bug on the Makefile
                   and contributed a bugfix.
                   copied the development files to the net (20010903).

August 31 2001 - Added new skeleton heuristic (#6), based on
                 removing the border until remain only isolated
                 pixels.

August 30 2001 - Now it's possible to inhibit the usage of a
                 given classifier for some letters through the
                 pattern types form.
                 The reset service became partially operational.
                 Added block separation heuristic based on the
                 detection of vertical separation lines.
                 Fixed bad behaviour of from_asc when the
                 string field to read is absent.

August 28 2001 - Erich Mueller reported geometry problems on dumps.

August 27 2001 - Added new classifier, based on pixel distances.

August 24 2001 - Changed 'setmode' to 'setview' (thanks Bruce Momjian).
                 Tests using FreeBSD.

August 22 2001 - Finished pattern types form.

August 15 2001 - Changed geometry of "tune (skel)" window.

August 14 2001 - Added distance-based skeleton heuristic (#5).
                 Better version of skel_qualitu, based on distance from
                 the pixel to the border.
                 Skeleton parameters now are per-pattern.

August 13 2001 - Tested Adriano's bitmap.

August 10 2001 - First version of skel_quality, based on distance from
                 the pixel to the skeleton.

August 8 2001 - Service compare_patterns finished.
                Partially fixed the behaviour of "display comparisons".

August 7 2001 - Began implementation of skeleton auto-tune.
                Fixed a bug in bmpcmp_skel.

August 4 2001 - Manual adjustment of pattern types now works.

August 3 2001 - Started reworking pattern types.

July 18 2001 - Added service dump_cb.
               Added detection and handling of C-x prefix.

July 16 2001 - Release 0.9.7 (first release announced at large).

July 4 2001 - Release 0.9.6.

June 22 2001 - Release 0.9.5.
