OCR software

[Al Kossow]

>    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.

classiccmp list member James Markevitch has been working on an OCR program
as well, optimized for column formated input, like listings.

I was just talking to Doron Swade (the person responsible for the Difference
Engine at the British Science Museum) and he is interested in OCR of
mathematical tables (also column-oriented like listings).