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Any printed font: Text, ALTO, hOCR, [19] PDF, others with different user interfaces [20] or the API: Created by Hewlett-Packard; under further development by Google [21] Name Founded year Latest stable version Release year License Online Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Android iOS Programming language SDK? Languages Fonts Output Formats Notes
Indic OCR refers to the process of converting text images written in Indic scripts into e-text using Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques. Broadly, it can also refer to the OCR systems of Brahmic scripts for languages of South Asia and Southeast Asia, not just the scripts of the Indian subcontinent, which are all written in an abugida-based writing system.
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 ...
The diversity of more than 700,000 printed font variants is tiny compared to the near unlimited variations in hand-printed characters. The recognition program must take into account not just stylistic differences but also the kind of writing implement used, the standard of the paper, errors, hand stability, and smudges or running ink. [2]
[1] [2] The image of the written text may be sensed "off line" from a piece of paper by optical scanning (optical character recognition) or intelligent word recognition. Alternatively, the movements of the pen tip may be sensed "on line", for example by a pen-based computer screen surface, a generally easier task as there are more clues available.
Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others.In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard.
Omni-font American inventor Ray Kurzweil creates Kurzweil Computer Products Inc., which develops the first omni-font OCR software, able to recognize text printed in virtually any font. [4] 1976 Company Dallas company Recognition Equipment Inc. is founded to read credit card receipts from gasoline purchases (U.S. Patent 4027141). [8] 1977 Company
PANOSE 1.0 table is supported in TrueType font format. PANOSE 2.0 is used in ElseWare Corporation's Infinifont parametric font generation system. In 1996, during the W3C's draft process for CSS 1, Hewlett-Packard proposed a PANOSE syntax extension for font substitution. It was not included in the final CSS 1 recommendation partly because of ...