Google has now decided that its open-source OCRopus technology, based on software called "Tesseract" that HP developed, is up to the task of indexing scanned documents that can contain any mixture ...

The Google Code Blog announced that Google has “re-released” the Tesseract OCR software to the open source community. OCR, optical character recognition, is the technology for converting text on a ...

Google has announced that it "quietly released" a veteran optical character recognition (OCR) engine as open source a few months ago. The engine, Tesseract, was developed between 1985 and 1995 by ...

Tesseract is not only a cooler name for a hypercube, but also an OCR engine originally written by Hewlett-Packard engineers.