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Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source
An anonymous reader writes "Google recently released Tesseract as open source. Originally developed at the HP Labs from 1985-1995, it has been touted as one of the most accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs available. Having sat on the shelf gathering dust for so many years, Google cleaned up some of the more outdated portions of the code and released it for general consumption. You can download Tesseract over at Sourceforge.
Google cleaned up some of the more outdated portions of the code
i.e., added AdSense to the OCR output.
You're right! Let us never delve into research that could conceivably overturn weak software security! Some things man was never meant to discover! Turn back, before we fly too close to the sun and our wings melt!! O, Prometheus, why hast thou given us this OCR technology??
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Now I can finally see how to tell the difference between the 'A'-ness of 'A' and the 'P'-ness of 'P'!
(Credit to S.G.)
Originally developed at the HP Labs from 1985-1995, it has been touted as one of the most accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs available.
Yeah, but how is it on lip-reading? That's when we really need to worry.
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Yes. They need the 99.9999% uptime (6 9s) that only sourceforge can provide.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Maybe they could
careful, statements like that are likely to get you voted governor in some states.
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Actually, shortly thereafter, HP decided to get out technology innovation business, and into the printer ink business.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
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That's no problem! All I really need it to do is allow all of those geeks out there to share those great Playboy articles with me over p2p networks! I'm tired of just getting the filler photography! ;-)
I think you need to recalibrate your sarcasm detector.
Do not anger the worm.
You're just not avant-garde enough.
Of course you can resort to other, harder to calculate questions like: "What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?" Oops, Computers seem to have become much faster since Deep Thought! :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
and don't forget the ADA, the Dyslexics Association of America
I'm tired of all of the anti-Americanism on /. If you want to exclude Americans from your site, go ahead; but don't rub our noses in it.
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