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HP and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas have finalized a coding project designed to bring a 10-year-old optical-character-recognition tool into the open-source community. The tool, named Tesseract, was also polished and cleaned up with the help of some folks at Google, and is now available freely on SourceForge.net.
Tesseract began life at Hewlett-Packard in 1985. In the 1990s, the tool won high praise at a UNLV-sponsored event pitting competing OCR software...