OCR software

[Zane H. Healy]

>    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