http://www.osnews.com/story/15680/Google_Open_Sources_Tesseract Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2010, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:44:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?157516 http://osnews.com/thread?157516 On the surface, this seems like a very nice contribution, that could be useful in lots of other applications.

But Sourceforge doesn't have anything listed under "License", so hopefully, it'll get sorted out. Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mike hess) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157521 http://osnews.com/thread?157521 Google has stated before they want to organise the world's information, and now they gain mindshare with people who would add substantive globs of information to the internet. Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157527 http://osnews.com/thread?157527 ...I haven't had a chance to look at the potential of the code here, but could this be leveraged to provide another string to the bow of desktop search? OCR of images (png, jpg, gif etc) by Beagle would be fantastic - picking out signs and all sorts of text would be a sweet feature! Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JCooper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157547 http://osnews.com/thread?157547 get people to ocr their own works, then google can help u share it with he world :-) Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157573 http://osnews.com/thread?157573 Nice to know there's a big company that knows what FOSS is all about. Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twenex) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157593 http://osnews.com/thread?157593 The Chinese like them too. Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (NotParker) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157598 http://osnews.com/thread?157598 I'm not aware of any other. Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CaptainPinko) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157617 http://osnews.com/thread?157617 I dunno...

Synaptic reveals: Clara, gocr, and ocrad

but I have all of the repositories enabled... so I'm not sure how free they are... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous Coward) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157728 http://osnews.com/thread?157728 "Nice to know there's a big company that knows what FOSS is all about."

Really? I thought this article was about Google? Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?158013 http://osnews.com/thread?158013 It's licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See http://tesseract-ocr.cvs.sourceforge.net/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/RE... Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KugelKurt) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?158036 http://osnews.com/thread?158036 "The University of Nevada in Las Vegas".

::headdesk::

It's The University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Apache 2.0 license ... interesting. It's nearly as flexible as the BSD license in terms of what it permits.

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And in the meantime, I'm interested in seeing who grabs the technology and runs with it and what interesting projects it spawns.Edited 2006-09-01 21:16 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kadymae) Comments