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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. [8]
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 ...
This comparison of optical character recognition software includes: OCR engines, that do the actual character identification. Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable for OCR. Graphical interfaces to one or more OCR engines. Software development kits that are used to add OCR capabilities to other software (e.g ...
Intelligent character recognition (ICR) makes use of continuously improving algorithms to collect more information about the variances in hand-printed characters and more precisely identify them. ICR, which was created in the early 1990s to aid in the automation of forms processing, enables the conversion of manually entered data into text that ...
Google Goggles was an image recognition mobile app developed by Google.It was used for searches based on pictures taken by handheld devices. For example, taking a picture of a famous landmark searches for information about it, or taking a picture of a product's barcode would search for information on the product.
Transkribus. Transkribus is a platform for the text recognition, image analysis and structure recognition of historical documents. The platform was created in the context of the two EU projects "tranScriptorium" (2013–2015) [1] and "READ" (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – 2016–2019). [2] It was developed by the ...
Project Naptha is a browser extension software for Google Chrome that allows users to highlight, copy, edit and translate text from within images. [1] It was created by developer Kevin Kwok, [2] and released in April 2014 as a Chrome add-on. This software was first made available only on Google Chrome, downloadable from the Chrome Web Store.
An image scanner —often abbreviated to just scanner —is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image. Commonly used in offices are variations of the desktop flatbed scanner where the document is placed on a glass window for scanning.