Filed under 'ocr'
➠ February 18, 2010
Integrating translation into Google Goggles
This is a cool prototype — Take a photo of some forrin text, and Google’s servers can OCR and translate it to English. Potentially wicked handy tool for travelling.
➠ November 7, 2009
Grim meathook future
I love the Wells Fargo ATMs which can successfully OCR checks from my father-in-law and credit the right amount. Genuinely impressive stuff!
➠ May 24, 2007
What is reCAPTCHA?
This I like a lot — CAPTCHAs partially made up of text that couldn’t be OCR’d successfully (so bots are unlikely to crack it), the solving of which in turn helps the Internet Archive digitize books.
➠ August 16, 2006
FuzzyOcrPlugin - Spamassassin Wiki
SpamAssassin plugin which OCRs the images attached to image-only mails to work out if they contain text like V14GRA. I imagine this is massively CPU-intense, but it might be worth looking at.
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