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h2. Download Decapod

Release date: Decapod 0.5 was released on June 4, 2012!

[Download and Install Decapod 0.5]

h2. What's New in Decapod 0.5

* New UI focused on Image import and export to PDF (Image, OCR, and Traced)

** Upgraded to Cherrypy 3.2.2

*Note:* Decapod 0.5 removes support for the camera capture workflow. This will be reintroduced in a future release

(See: [All Closed Jiras for Decapod 0.5|http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+DECA+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%220.5%22+AND+status+%3D+Closed+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&mode=hide])

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h3. Past Releases

* [Decapod 0.4 Release]
* [Decapod 0.3 Release]
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h2. What is Decapod?

Decapod is a project focused on building a low-cost digitization solution that will allow for rare materials, materials held in collections without large budgets, and other scholarly content to be digitized into a high-quality PDF format. This project will work to incorporate the hardware and software necessary to accomplish this goal.

h2. Known Issues

See [Decapod 0.5 Known Issues|http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10511] for a full, up-to-date listing of known issues with this release. Some of the known issues at release time are:

genpdf:
* [DECA-188@JIRA]: Type 2 output quality is poor for well photographed and scanned documents

Server:
* [DECA-216@JIRA]: The server doesn't report all errors and exceptions
* [DECA-241@JIRA]: The server returns URLs that are relative to the server root, but doesn't include the server's domain

UI:
* [DECA-249@JIRA]: Errors returned by the server are not handled by the UI

For questions and assistance using Decapod 0.5, join the [decapod mailing list|http://groups.google.com/group/decapod]. If you find a bug or issue with 0.5, you can file bug reports on our [issue tracker|http://issues.fluidproject.org].

h2. Licensing

Decapod is released under the Apache 2 license, making it widely compatible with a variety of open source licenses as well as commercial code.

The specific licences can be found on the Fluid wiki's [Decapod License] page.

h2. Appreciation

A lot of work has gone into this release, and we'd like to thank everyone in the community for their contributions. We could not have reached this point without the dedication of all of our users, designer and developers.