Google has plans to help the world convert its mountains of paper records into a Borg like hive mind, using an optical character recognition program called Tesseract. Tesseract was originally ...

This is the sort of thing that makes me like Google again. Google just announced work on the open source OCRopus project, a document analysis and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system:The goal of ...

Open-source software is non-proprietary software that can allow for collaboration and modification among developers. While developers are typically encouraged to view, modify, and improve open-source ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...