The first official alpha version of Google's OCRopus scanning software for Linux was released yesterday. OCRopus is built on top of HP's venerable open-source Tesseract optical character recognition ...

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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 ...

The first alpha version of Google Code's open source OCRopus optical character recognition scanning software is out. We put it to the test to see how it handles an assortment of text samples. Seeing ...

Google is sponsoring an artificial-intelligence research group's work to develop advanced technologies for character recognition. The open-source project, called Ocropus, has several goals, including ...