Google's Alpha Open-Source OCRopus Scanning Software Released
Google has released an alpha release of its open-source OCRopus optical character recognition software. The C++/Python software was developed under Ubuntu 7.10, and it initially supports Linux x86 and x86/64.
Read a review of the release at "Hands on with Google's OCRopus Open-Source Scanning Software."
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