In the course of researching a book, I’ve been using my iPhone as sort of a “record keeping” device for a while now, uploading items to Evernote and, more frequently, storing images of text for later ...

Card Scanning Solutions, a developer of card reader systems using advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, announced the full support of their OCR Software Developer Kit (SDK) for ...

An experimental Abiword plugin built on Ocropus and GEGL brings integrated OCR scanning support to the popular open source word processing program. The Abiword plugin is being developed by GNOME-scan ...

I'm using really old CPU power right now. I'd like something that's faster in general, and one thing in particular I'd like to speed up is my text scanning and OCR capabilities in Abbyy Finereader. I ...

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I own a ScanSnap S1300i scanner, but I’m not sure why anymore. I used to scan paper documents and store them on my Mac. I’d OCR the scans, so they would be text searchable, and I used Hazel rules to ...

Microsoft Excel is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful and influential pieces of software ever released, across a huge range of industries and professions. But how do you scan in a document and ...

The cloud storage service can extract text from photos taken with Windows Phone devices, useful for shots of business cards, train schedules, and memos. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...