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Google Pushes Open Source OCR

Posted by Zonk on from the google-has-taken-all-knowledge-to-be-its-provice dept.

SocialWorm writes "Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will 'advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies.' OCRopus will be available under the Apache 2.0 License. Obviously, there may be search and image search implications from OCRopus. 'The goal of the project is to advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies, and to deliver a high quality OCR system suitable for document conversions, electronic libraries, vision impaired users, historical document analysis, and general desktop use. In addition, we are structuring the system in such a way that it will be easy to reuse by other researchers in the field.'"

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  1. the presidential papers by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The goal of the project is to ... deliver a high quality OCR system suitable for document conversions, electronic libraries, vision impaired users, historical document analysis

    So, will it work on documents written in crayon? It would be a tragic loss for Dubya's presidential documents to get lost in the sands of time. On the scale of the library of Alexandria. No, seriously.

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  2. Orcopus? by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 4, Funny

    Orcopus:

    Level: 15
    Race: Fell Marine
    HP: 290/290
    EP: 200/200
    Water elemental
    Drops: Tentacle

  3. Re:Language? by fireboy1919 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since the official language of the Googleplex is Googlese, and the original project was developed by the US Census bureau - notorious for their use of no languages except Esperanto, it goes without saying (though I'm saying it anyway), that it will read only Klingon.

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  4. Re:captcha's by cmacb · · Score: 4, Funny

    captcha's are not restricted to images of letters. For example: you could ask people to solve a regular text question (this would also fix accessibility issues)

    You mean as in:

    Describe what the following expression does in 30 words or less:
    {"ab", "c"}{"d", "ef"} = {"abd", "abef", "cd", "cef"}

    Man, I'll never get into forum postings if they do that!
  5. Re:captcha's by JamesTRexx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Describe what the following expression does in 30 words or less:
    {"ab", "c"}{"d", "ef"} = {"abd", "abef", "cd", "cef"}

    Answer: Makes my head hurt...

    *click* Access to MySpace granted, have a nice day.

    Which forum were you taking about again? :-)

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