Google Pushes Open Source OCR 212
SocialWorm writes "Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will 'advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies.' OCRopus will be available under the Apache 2.0 License. Obviously, there may be search and image search implications from OCRopus. 'The goal of the project is to advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies, and to deliver a high quality OCR system suitable for document conversions, electronic libraries, vision impaired users, historical document analysis, and general desktop use. In addition, we are structuring the system in such a way that it will be easy to reuse by other researchers in the field.'"
the presidential papers (Score:4, Funny)
So, will it work on documents written in crayon? It would be a tragic loss for Dubya's presidential documents to get lost in the sands of time. On the scale of the library of Alexandria. No, seriously.
Orcopus? (Score:4, Funny)
Level: 15
Race: Fell Marine
HP: 290/290
EP: 200/200
Water elemental
Drops: Tentacle
Re:the presidential papers (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Language? (Score:5, Funny)
Remember kids, there are no stupid questions.
Only people who don't RTFA who ask questions.
Re:The beginning of the end? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:From? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:captcha's (Score:5, Funny)
You mean as in:
Describe what the following expression does in 30 words or less:
{"ab", "c"}{"d", "ef"} = {"abd", "abef", "cd", "cef"}
Man, I'll never get into forum postings if they do that!
Re:captcha's (Score:5, Funny)
{"ab", "c"}{"d", "ef"} = {"abd", "abef", "cd", "cef"}
Answer: Makes my head hurt...
*click* Access to MySpace granted, have a nice day.
Which forum were you taking about again?
Ocropus? (Score:3, Funny)