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The first official alpha version of Google's OCRopus scanning software for Linux was released yesterday. OCRopus is built on top of HP's venerable open-source Tesseract optical character recognition ...

An experimental Abiword plugin built on Ocropus and GEGL brings integrated OCR scanning support to the popular open source word processing program. The Abiword plugin is being developed by GNOME-scan ...

Google is sponsoring an artificial-intelligence research group's work to develop advanced technologies for character recognition. The open-source project, called Ocropus, has several goals, including ...