1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
7:39 p.m.
This isn't strictly on-topic, but I believe
it's important to many
people here. I just learned about this on another list.
HP developed an OCR engine called Tesseract that is supposed to be
pretty good. They released it to the open-source world, and Google has
picked it up and started working on it. The code itself is available
via SourceForge. Here is the announcement:
http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-
ocr.html
With all the document preservation activities going on these days, in
our circles as well as others, this may be a significant development.
Does anyone on this list know any of the HP people that were involved in
getting this Open Sourced? Could this possibly herald a new found
willingness on HP's part to be more Hobbyist Friendly with regards to Legacy
OS's?
I know, I'm probably just dreaming :^(
Zane