OCRopus:
The software is partly based on
Tesseract, the best open source OCR
engine available for now. While the
project is expected to be released at
the end of next year and will be used
for Google's book scanning project,
the team has some interesting
applications in mind:
- a web service interface
- PDF, camera, and screen OCR
- integration with desktop search tools: Beagle, Spotlight, Google
Desktop
OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art
document analysis and OCR system,
featuring pluggable layout analysis,
pluggable character recognition,
statistical natural language modeling,
and multi-lingual capabilities.
The OCRopus engine is based on two
research projects: a high-performance
handwriting recognizer developed in
the mid-90's and deployed by the US
Census bureau, and novel
high-performance layout analysis
methods.
OCRopus is development is sponsored by
Google and is initially intended for
high-throughput, high-volume document
conversion efforts. We expect that it
will also be an excellent OCR system
for many other applications.
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GOCR
GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers.
GOCR can be used with different front-ends, which makes it very easy to port to different OSes and architectures. It can open many different image formats, and its quality have been improving in a daily basis.
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