New tool screens spam, digitizes books
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| A group of Carnegie Mellon University programmers has launched a
| service called ReCaptcha that can help cut down on spam while
| letting people digitize books.
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| The ReCaptcha service is available now through an application
| programming interface (API) for people to integrate into their
| Web sites. Software plug-ins to use the API are open-source
| software packages hosted at Google Code.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6186430.html
Related:
Linux OCR: A review of free optical character recognition software
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| The good news is that there are solutions available on Linux right
| now which interpret documents at up to 99% accuracy.
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http://groundstate.ca/ocr
open source document analysis and OCR system
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| OCRopus is development is sponsored by Google and is initially
| intended for high-throughput, high-volume document conversion
| efforts. We expect that it will also be an excellent OCR system
| for many other applications.
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http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/
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