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Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bit-rot dept.

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 Having sat on the shelf gathering dust for so many years, Google cleaned up some of the more outdated portions of the code and released it for general consumption.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.

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  1. improvements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google cleaned up some of the more outdated portions of the code
    i.e., added AdSense to the OCR output.

  2. Re:As much as I like open source software ... by illuminatedwax · · Score: 5, Funny

    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??

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  3. Re:Hosting by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. They need the 99.9999% uptime (6 9s) that only sourceforge can provide.

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  4. HP decided to got out of the OCR business? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny
    In 1995 it was one of the top 3 performers at the OCR accuracy contest organized by University of Nevada in Las Vegas. However, shortly thereafter, HP decided to get out of the OCR business...

    Actually, shortly thereafter, HP decided to get out technology innovation business, and into the printer ink business.

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