Welcome to the Gamera Project Site
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.
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:
- online
- downloadable .tar.gz
- downloadable .zip
- Older documentation for the 2.x series
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:
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.