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Design of an <endeca_term>Optical Character Recognition</endeca_term> System for Camera-Based Handheld Devices

Design of an Optical Character Recognition System for Camera-Based Handheld Devices

This paper presents a complete Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for camera captured image/graphics embedded textual documents... Read more

1 July, 2011
iOCR <endeca_term>Optical Character Recognition</endeca_term> 4.0

iOCR Optical Character Recognition 4.0

...the text, and/or the translation.Great for traveling.OCR Stands for Optical Character Recognition.The app will recognize the source language and the you... Read more

15 February, 2011
Implementing <endeca_term>Optical Character Recognition</endeca_term> on the Android Operating System for Business Cards

Implementing Optical Character Recognition on the Android Operating System for Business Cards

...objective is to optimize the image for input to the Tesseract OCR (optical character recognition) engine. Then a simplified reduced-complexity implementation on the DROID... Read more

7 June, 2010

Word Lens app translates what your iPhone sees

...Lens, a standalone £2.99/$4.99 iPhone app that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to identify words in images, and then translate them... Read more

17 December, 2010
Text Based Image Recognition Using Multilayer Perceptron

Text Based Image Recognition Using Multilayer Perceptron

...ultimate objective of any OCR is to simulate the human reading capability. Optical Character Recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation... Read more

13 October, 2011

Google Drive offers 'open' collaboration platform

...implementation of search. The service can recognise text in scanned documents, using optical character recognition (OCR) technology. It can also use image recognition.Enterprise tools... Read more

25 April, 2012 by David Meyer
PhotoText 2.1

PhotoText 2.1

...requires manual input of the text, as it doesnt have an OCR (optical character recognition) feature, so dont expect it to do all of the... Read more

14 May, 2012
PDFpen 5.8.1

PDFpen 5.8.1

...blocks Move, resize, copy and delete images in original PDF Perform basic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on scanned documents Insert and remove pages; re-order... Read more

12 May, 2012
OmniFormat 10.5

OmniFormat 10.5

...PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX, and MPEG.OmniFormat supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and may also be used to convert images and... Read more

26 April, 2012

Google Drive launches with multiformat search

...with Google attempting to automatically recognise images for keyword searching, and adding optical character recognition (OCR) to turn bitmap documents such as PDFs into text... Read more

24 April, 2012
DEVONthink Pro Office 2.3.4

DEVONthink Pro Office 2.3.4

...Pro with three additional modules: Pro-grade email archiving, paper capture including optical character recognition, and integrated web sharing (search only Read more

19 April, 2012
DEVONthink Pro 2.3.4

DEVONthink Pro 2.3.4

...Pro with three additional modules: Pro-grade email archiving, paper capture including optical character recognition, and integrated web sharing (search only Read more

19 April, 2012
PDF OCR X Community Edition 1.9.25

PDF OCR X Community Edition 1.9.25

...and images into text or searchable PDF documents. It uses advanced OCR (optical character recognition) technology to extract the text of the PDF (or image... Read more

29 March, 2012
Tiff to Text 3.0

Tiff to Text 3.0

Tiff to Text is designed to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in a batch process. The program utilizes the OCR... Read more

29 February, 2012
Paperless 2.1.2

Paperless 2.1.2

...the clutter. Simply scan receipts, warranties, deposit slips and other paperwork. The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Paperless automatically recognizes and helps categorize documents. Built... Read more

21 October, 2011

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