Welcome to the Gamera Project Site

last modified 2008-04-23

This is the official homepage of the Gamera project. Gamera is a framework for the creation of structured document analysis applications by domain experts. It combines a programming library with GUI tools for the training and interactive development of recognition systems. Gamera is a Python-based framework, with many extensions in C++ for low-level image processing. It runs on Linux (and probably other flavors of *nix), Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OS X.

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Links on this page may change. Please set your bookmarks to Gamera to http://ldp.library.jhu.edu/gamera

About Gamera

For starters, please read the Gentle overview of Gamera or watch the Gamera video demo. (This video is encoded with Windows Media Video version 7, and is playable in Windows Media Player on MS Windows, MPlayer on Linux x86, or MPlayer OS-X on Mac OS-X.)

News

09/27/05: I'm pleased to announce the release of Gamera 3.x. Import information on keeping up-to-date with CVS is here . The documentation contains information about the changes from Gamera 2.x to 3.x .

Obtaining Gamera

Gamera can be downloaded from the SourceForge file release page.

As the file releases are updated very infrequently, we highly recommend using CVS .

Documentation

The official Gamera documentation:

There is also a Gamera FAQ and a list of Gamera published papers .

First time users may wish to watch the video .

Some external documentation:

Python programming language
VIGRA image processing library

Screenshots

If you're looking for screenshots, try the training tutorial

Support

Please use the bug-tracking tool to report bugs

The Yahoo! Groups mailing list is the best way to communicate with other developers and users of Gamera. Please consult the Gamera FAQ before posting to the mailing list.

Contributing

Gamera development is hosted on SourceForge.

Help is always welcome, whether it's improving the documentation, bug reports, coding new features or offering design suggestions. There is a TODO list, and a list of backward incompatible changes for Gamera 3.x. This may provide inspiration for people looking for projects to do.

The source code is available through CVS .

Please use the bug-tracking tool to report bugs, and the Yahoo! Groups mailing list to communicate with other developers and users of Gamera. Please consult the Gamera FAQ before posting to the mailing list.

Authors and Acknowledgements

The primary developers of Gamera are:

Michael Droettboom Lead developer
Christoph Dalitz
Robert Ferguson
Ichiro Fujinaga

Former primary developers (these people no longer work on Gamera as part of their "day job"):

Karl Mac Millan
Albert Brzcecko
Sourin Das

Thanks to the following people who have contributed their time, support, feedback and code to Gamera (in alphabetical order):

Teal Anderson, Grant Arnold, Lukas Cenovsky, Alexander Cobb, Tim DiLauro, Thomas Karsten, Jurgen Killian,
 Uma Kompella, Jean-Francois Leon, David Lewis, Moritz Muras, Mark Patton, Raghu, Jason Riesa,
 Seo Sanghyeon, Jochen Zimmerman

The project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the Levy family.

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