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Apple links OCR to HTML
News Bundled software includes ColorSync 2.1 colour matching software, Xerox's TextBridge 3.0 OCR package and Kai's Power Tools 3.0 SE. The OneScanner (£555 + VAT) supports 30-bit colour depth and recognises over one billion colours.
[September 12, 1996, 17:08]
Google slips out open source OCR engine
News Google has announced that it "quietly released" a veteran optical character recognition (OCR) engine as open source a few months ago. The engine, Tesseract, was developed between 1985 and 1995 by HP Labs to some acclaim, but was filed away when the...
[September 5, 2006, 12:55]
OCR Folder
Downloads OCR Folder is a desktop application that allows you to process an entire folder of text image files to ASCII text. You define specific zones to process. Process both ASCII text and barcodes. Results stored to delimited text file, XML, or Excel.
[March 12, 2007, 10:01]
PDF OCR Compressor SDK (JBIG2, JPEG2000)
Downloads PDF OCR Compressor SDK (JBIG2, JPEG2000) is a Windows Application which can directly convert image files (TIF, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PSD, WMF, EMF, PDF, PCX, and PIC) to PDF files. PDF OCR Compressor SDK (JBIG2, JPEG2000) does support skew-correct...
[February 5, 2008, 11:41]
Why Outsource Document Scanning/OCR Projects
White Papers Document scanning/OCR service is a very affordable business solution. By outsourcing document scanning/OCR service projects one gain access to world-class capabilities and resources by leveraging the talent, technology and skills of others.
[February 13, 2009, 0:24]
Caere buys OCR rival Recognita
News The deal is expected to go through by the end of the year and will leave Xerox as Caere's only realistic competition in OCR. Bob Teresi, Caere's chairman and CEO, said the purchase "will position Caere as the uncontested OCR leader" with over 100...
[December 4, 1996, 13:07]
Google slips out open source OCR engine
Talkback Shame it doesn't compile under Linux. Well, it fails on my Ubuntu machine, and when I looked on Sourceforge there were other cases noted on Debian and Fedora. Doesn't seem to be much (read: no) activity on investigating the problems.
[September 6, 2006, 10:58]
FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition review
Reviews FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition installs easily, and -- with one notable exception -- performs like any other OCR application. The FineReader interface makes basic OCR tasks as simple or as complex as you'd like.
[October 29, 2003, 13:30]
Readiris Pro
Downloads Eliminate time-consuming manual retyping with Readiris Pro 9 Mac, the award-winning and latest OCR software from I.R.I.S. That's five times faster than any OCR available on the market. Readiris Pro 9 Mac converts paper documents, PDFs (even...
[February 16, 2004, 15:04]
ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition
Downloads ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition is an intelligent OCR and PDF conversion application that turns PDF files, scanned images and digital photographs into truly editable and searchable formats with optimal accuracy and layout retention.
[November 23, 2007, 1:00]
TOCR
Downloads Transym OCR (TOCR) is an optical character recognition engine. TOCR Version 1.4 consists of the OCR engine together with a simple viewer program to connect to the engine (written in VB 5.0 - source code supplied) which will handle both bitmaps and...
[September 19, 2005, 8:00]
PDF Converter Elite
Downloads A complete PDF tool with PDF conversion, creation, editing, and OCR capabilities in a single software package. PDF converter Elite 2009 contains OCR capabilities so you can convert image PDF and Tiff files into MS Office applications.
[February 20, 2009, 2:22]
Major Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance Provider Achieves $1 Million ROI With InputAccel/FormWare Combination
White Papers To achieve the seemingly conflicting goals, one of the largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurers in the U.S.looked to advances in data capture and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to improve the handling of its paper-based...
[December 6, 2008, 0:23]
Xerox melds dual-mode scan pack into Win95 desktop
News It dithers images to produce high quality rendering, and uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to convert scanned text into text files. Separately, Ricketts commented on OCR rival Caere's acquisition of Recognita: "I don't quite know...
[December 4, 1996, 16:05]
About Microsoft Office Document Imaging
White Papers Microsoft Office Document Imaging also gives the user the ability to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) either as part of scanning a document, or while the user works with a TIFF or MDI file.
[April 16, 2008, 1:02]
Nuggets: Primax scanner needs just OneTouch
News The OneTouch 7600 -- also available in stunning USB -- has the standard 600-ppi optical resolution and 36-bit colour depth and comes bundled with Visioneer PaperPort and OCR software, and MGI PhotoSuite 8.06 imaging software.phew!
[June 2, 1999, 13:08]
HP Scanjet N8460 review
Reviews Readiris Pro OCR and Kofax VirtualReScan. For example, button one could be configured to scan single-sided at 150dpi in greyscale, while button two could initiate a double-sided OCR scan. Based on a flatbed design with a large 100-sheet capacity...
[March 26, 2008, 9:09]
OmniPage Pro 11 review
Reviews There are three operational modes: AutoOCR, which makes most of the choices for you; manual OCR, where you're in complete control; or the OCR Wizard. This is less laborious than setting each option individually, but for less experienced OCR users...
[July 10, 2001, 0:00]
Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5370C review
Reviews HP's Precision Scan Pro software includes OCR functionality, while third-party applications from Corel, Caere and Boomerang provide ample support for mainstream home and office scanning. The full page text scan at minimum colour depth -- the...
[September 6, 2001, 0:00]
OmniPage Pro 12 Office review
Reviews For your convenience, the right-hand window (the Text Editor) displays the post-OCR page so that you can proofread it. Even better, in addition to scanned images and PDFs, OmniPage runs OCR on files saved in most graphics formats (including TIF...
[October 9, 2002, 8:04]
