I play with open-source OCR (Optical Character Recognition) packages periodically. My last foray was a few years ago when I bought a tablet PC and wanted to scan in some of my course books so I could ...

Port from developers at MIT supports dozens of languages and makes it easier and cheaper to build image-processing applications With their JavaScript port of the Tesseract optical character ...

This competent freebie is excellent for extracting text, and that’s all it does. FreeOCR is a nice, simple front-end for HP’s public domain Tesseract OCR engine (now used by Google) and is roughly the ...