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Open source linux scanning software from Google

October 26, 2007 | 11:40 am

Posted in: ebook, public domain

By David Rothman

"Although OCRopus is weak in many areas," says an Ars Technica review, it has some real potential." (Via Bob Russell at MobileRead.)

Technorati Tags: Google , OCRopus , OCR , OCR software , scanners

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Bill Janssen says:

October 26, 2007 at 2:14 pm

My advice: if you want to contribute, try this release. If you want to OCR something, wait for the beta version.

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Open source linux scanning software from Google

October 26, 2007 | 11:40 am

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