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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 Having sat on the shelf gathering dust for so many years, Google cleaned up some of the more outdated portions of the code and released it for general consumption.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:As much as I like open source software ... by iced_773 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can't spammers use this thing to break CAPTCHAs on sites like Slashdot and many other internet forums?

    No. Of course not. This is open source. Free software can do no wrong. The only software that can cause problems is non-free crap like anything made by M$. The typical Windoze installation blue-screens after seven minutes. If it lives past that, then it clogs bandwidth by sending out spam and DDoS attacks. You won't see that on Debian, or on Tesseract.

    zealotSnark->setActive(FALSE);
  2. Re:As much as I like open source software ... by iced_773 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Moderation -1
        100% Troll

    Some Slashbot moderators just can't handle the truth.