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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 Having sat on the shelf gathering dust for so many years, Google cleaned up some of the more outdated portions of the code and released it for general consumption.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. Re:Anti-spam by ZSpade · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Following that logic, wouldn't this then also be just as usefull a tool to spammers looking to crack those crazy registration verification images?

    It's open source, available to all who would use it; be it for good or profit, but hopefully both.

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  2. Why release it on Sourceforge by MySchizoBuddy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Couldn't google have released it on their own code hosting they recently launched.

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  3. MOD PARENT UP by Phroggy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    My thoughts exactly...

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