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Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. [5] It is free software , released under the Apache License . [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software in the 1980s, it was released as open source in 2005 and development was sponsored by Google in 2006.
Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable for OCR; Graphical interfaces to one or more OCR engines; Software development kits that are used to add OCR capabilities to other software (e.g. forms processing applications, document imaging management systems, e-discovery systems, records management solutions)
Tesseract seems rather technically challenging to install/configure. FreeOCR is built on it, and may be more user-friendly for people who have the required Windows 2K/XP. Archivista Box is a complete document management solution Linux livecd that includes Tesseract.
The free cross-platform OCR engine Tesseract is published by Hewlett Packard and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 2008 Application Adobe Acrobat starts including support for OCR on any PDF file. [7] 2011 Application Word-frequency lookup Google Ngram Viewer is developed to chart frequencies of words on any source printed from 1950 to 2008 ...
OCRFeeder is an optical character recognition suite for GNOME, which also supports virtually any command-line OCR engine, such as CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad and Tesseract.It converts paper documents to digital document files and can serve to make them accessible to visually impaired users.
OCRopus is a free document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) system released under the Apache License v2.0 with a very modular design using command-line interfaces. OCRopus is developed under the lead of Thomas Breuel from the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Kaiserslautern, Germany and was sponsored by Google.
Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...
OCR-A is a font issued in 1966 [2] and first implemented in 1968. [3] A special font was needed in the early days of computer optical character recognition, when there was a need for a font that could be recognized not only by the computers of that day, but also by humans. [4]