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 ...

This is the sort of thing that makes me like Google again. Google just announced work on the open source OCRopus project, a document analysis and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system:The goal of ...

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 ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...