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The first official alpha version of Google's OCRopus scanning software for Linux was released yesterday. OCRopus is built on top of HP's venerable open-source Tesseract optical character recognition ...

Google has covered quite a lot of turf during the march toward its goal of making every last bit of the world's information searchable. But considering all the ground that has yet to be ...

This is the sort of thing that makes me like Google again. Google just announced work on the open source OCRopus project, a document analysis and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system:The goal of ...

Google is sponsoring an artificial-intelligence research group's work to develop advanced technologies for character recognition. The open-source project, called Ocropus, has several goals, including ...