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Google sponsors the OCRopus open source project

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April 16, 2007

Google is reportedly sponsoring an open source project called OCRopus. The new initiative is to develop a HRS (handwriting recognition system) to convert any handwritten document into standard text that any computer can understand.

Google's new project has attracted funding from some German government agencies and a few other public and private organizations.

The OCR (Optimal Character Recognition) system and the open source document analysis could be used to create electronic libraries, analyse complete historical documents and help vision-impaired people access the information.

Google's OCRopus project is based at the Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition (IUPR) research group at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

The research is being conducted by Professor Thomas Breuel. The project is expected to last up to three years.

The software will be based on two earlier research projects:

  • A handwriting recognition system developed in the mid-90s for use by the US Census Bureau
  • Newer layout analysis methods for character recognition

    Industry observers expect OCRopus will be available under the Apache 2.0 License.

    A preview will be available on the project’s website www.ocropus.org.

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    Source: Platinax.co.uk






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