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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...