This version of Jochre is no longer being maintained.
A new version of the OCR software is available at https://gitlab.com/jochre/jochre3-ocr (mirrored to https://github.com/joliciel-informatique/jochre3-ocr).
A new version of the OCR search engine API is available at https://gitlab.com/jochre/jochre3-search (mirrored to https://github.com/joliciel-informatique/jochre3-search).
Jochre is an OCR package based on supervised machine learning techniques. It has been applied to several languages, including Yiddish, Occitan and Alsacien.
More information can be found on the wiki.