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A 2016 analysis of the accuracy and reliability of the OCR packages Google Docs OCR, Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader, and Transym, employing a dataset including 1227 images from 15 different categories concluded Google Docs OCR and ABBYY to be performing better than others.
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.
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 ...
A related field to OMR and OCR is the recognition of barcodes, such as the UPC bar code found on product packaging. One of the most familiar applications of OMR is the use of #2 pencil (HB in Europe) bubble optical answer sheets in multiple choice question examinations. Students mark their answers, or other personal information, by darkening ...
In the bottom-up approaches, the image is segmented into multiple components and the segmented image is passed through a recognition engine. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Either an off the shelf Optical character recognition (OCR) engine [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] or a custom-trained one is used to recognise the text.
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.
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OCR technology is made available online as a service (WebOCR), in a cloud computing environment, as well as in mobile applications like real-time translation of foreign-language signs on a smartphone. [24] 2005 Application Software The free cross-platform OCR engine Tesseract is published by Hewlett Packard and the University of Nevada, Las ...