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unusual facts about optical character recognition



Allen Coombs

Later, he headed the scientific side of R14, the division working on optical character recognition for postal mechanisation, which moved to the new BT Research Centre at Martlesham in Suffolk.

Captricity

Captricity is a data capture software program (and the company that sells it) that uses a combination of machine-learning and human verification to perform OCR data capture from hand-filled forms.

CONTENTdm

Some examples of these developments are the ability to upload JPEG 2000 files and use optical character recognition (OCR) on text documents to allow for full text searching.

Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.

While best known for his work on Smalltalk, Ingalls is also known for developing an optical character recognition system for Devanagari writing, which he did at the instigation of his father, Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr., a professor of Sanskrit.

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Today's advanced state of optical character recognition (OCR) technology also means that machines can often read the human-readable format of Arabic numerals and Latin script.


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