Google has re-released an open source version of optical character recognition (OCR) software originally produced by HP. The Tesseract program was developed by HP between 1985 and 1995 and in its ...

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 ...

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 ...