Google does OCR...
On Aug. 30, Google's "über tech lead" Luc Vincent announced that the company was turning to the tech community for help improving Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, which enables computers to decipher words in scanned texts. The first step: Google debugged an old Hewlett-Packard OCR engine, named Tesseract, that HP had released to university researchers in Nevada. Before that, the application had sat idle at Hewlett-Packard (HP) since 1995, when the company decided to leave the OCR business and concentrate on its line of home office products, computers, printers, and cameras.
Google then released the cleaned version to the open-source community.
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