OCR software

[Dave McGuire]

   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.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL