Open source OCR Optical character recognition

Paper in many places has become increasingly out of favour, paperless office talk for more than 40 years, the office environment is restricting the production of paper Mountain. In the past few years, the concept of paperless office has undergone a significant shift. With the help of computer software, documents containing a large number of important management data and information can be stored more conveniently in electronic form. The benefits of scanning a document are not purely archival reasons. Optical character Recognition (OCR) technology is critical in order to access paper-based information and integrate information into digital workflows. Choosing the right OCR tool depends on your specific needs, such as online OCR services that are useful to some people, but there may be privacy issues and file size limitations. OCR software is a non-VW product, so open source substitution is relatively less than commercial-grade heavyweight products, plus OCR software requires advanced algorithms to correctly translate scanned images into actual text, and images contain not only text, but also layouts, graphics, and tables that may span multiple pages.

Excellent open source OCR software includes:

Tesseract

The original HP-developed image Recognition Class library, TESSERACT-OCR, has been updated to 2.04, which is the OCR that Google supported recently. Originally written by Hewlett-Packard, it is now open source.

Ocropus

Ocropus (TM) is an advanced file analysis and OCR system with pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, natural language statistical modeling and multi-language support capabilities.

Cuneiform

Cuneiform is the trademark of an OCR word recognition system, and is the first software developed by cognitive technology that runs under Windows. This project is a ported version of the software under Linux systems.

Gocr

GOCR is an open-source OCR optical recognition program.

Ocrfeeder

Ocrfeeder is an open-source OCR suite under the GNOME desktop. Paper or graphic documents can be converted into electronic documents.

Lios

Linux-intelligent-ocr-solution (Lios) is the next open source OCR solution for Linux, which converts printed documents into editable text.

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Open source OCR Optical character recognition