http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html And it's great for the Linux and OSS community and the world in general. Next step hopefully: their own flavour of Linux ? |
It would be cool if something like Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com/ (started by a now-Googler)) added support for this OCR engine. Then we'd have a little OSS competition to Riya and perhaps Neven. |