I play with open-source OCR (Optical Character Recognition) packages periodically. My last foray was a few years ago when I bought a tablet PC and wanted to scan in some of my course books so I could ...

Port from developers at MIT supports dozens of languages and makes it easier and cheaper to build image-processing applications With their JavaScript port of the Tesseract optical character ...

The Google Code Blog announced that Google has “re-released” the Tesseract OCR software to the open source community. OCR, optical character recognition, is the technology for converting text on a ...

How many of us have tried to get a hold of reliable optical character recognition (OCR) software, only to be stumped by buggy and incomplete code in the free or cheap tools, and ridiculous pricing on ...

Tesseract is an excellent academic OCR library available for free for almost all use cases to developers. The question is, why would we use Iron OCR over Tesseract – particularly as Iron OCR ...

In this article, we'll take a closer look at the most popular OCR software used by finance and accounting teams in 2025.

OCR or Optical character recognition is an useful technology to convert an image into a machine readable text. The image can be of a scanned document or a printed text. Though the OCR software are not ...

SmileOnMyMac Software has updated PDFpen, incorporating Nuance Communications’ OmniPage OCR engine into the PDF editing program. PDFpen 4.5 uses version 15.5 of the OmniPage OCR, replacing the ...

This competent freebie is excellent for extracting text, and that’s all it does. FreeOCR is a nice, simple front-end for HP’s public domain Tesseract OCR engine (now used by Google) and is roughly the ...

Tesseract is an excellent academic OCR library available for free for almost all use cases to developers. The question is, why would we use Iron OCR over Tesseract – particularly as Iron OCR ...