Tesseract is an excellent academic OCR library available for free for almost all use cases to developers. The question is, why would we use Iron OCR over Tesseract – particularly as Iron OCR ...

Port from developers at MIT supports dozens of languages and makes it easier and cheaper to build image-processing applications With their JavaScript port of the Tesseract optical character ...

I play with open-source OCR (Optical Character Recognition) packages periodically. My last foray was a few years ago when I bought a tablet PC and wanted to scan in some of my course books so I could ...

One of the practical upsides of improved computer vision systems and machine learning has been the ability of computers to translate text from one language or format to another. [Jchen] used this to ...

This competent freebie is excellent for extracting text, and that’s all it does. FreeOCR is a nice, simple front-end for HP’s public domain Tesseract OCR engine (now used by Google) and is roughly the ...