Google has plans to help the world convert its mountains of paper records into a Borg like hive mind, using an optical character recognition program called Tesseract. Tesseract was originally ...

Google has announced that it "quietly released" a veteran optical character recognition (OCR) engine as open source a few months ago. The engine, Tesseract, was developed between 1985 and 1995 by HP ...

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The first official alpha version of Google's OCRopus scanning software for Linux was released yesterday. OCRopus is built on top of HP's venerable open-source Tesseract optical character recognition ...

The PDF software Stirling PDF has been released in version 2.0. The open-source tool will now offer desktop apps, text ...

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How many of us have tried to get a hold of reliable optical character recognition (OCR) software, only to be stumped by buggy and incomplete code in the free or cheap tools, and ridiculous pricing on ...