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 ...

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 ...

Tesseract is an excellent academic OCR library available for free for almost all use cases to developers. The question is, why would we use Iron OCR over Tesseract – particularly as Iron OCR ...

OCR or Optical character recognition is an useful technology to convert an image into a machine readable text. The image can be of a scanned document or a printed text. Though the OCR software are not ...

SmileOnMyMac Software has updated PDFpen, incorporating Nuance Communications’ OmniPage OCR engine into the PDF editing program. PDFpen 4.5 uses version 15.5 of the OmniPage OCR, replacing the ...

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 ...

Tesseract is an excellent academic OCR library available for free for almost all use cases to developers. The question is, why would we use Iron OCR over Tesseract – particularly as Iron OCR ...