Re: state-of-the-art open-source OCR from Google/IUPR
- From: Bowerbird@[redacted]
- Subject: Re: state-of-the-art open-source OCR from Google/IUPR
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:22:14 EDT
bill said:
> In other words, to go along with their hi-res page scans,
> Google is now going to fund an open-source state-of-the-art
> OCR system to use on them. And the IUPR group is good.
that's great news! :+)
of course, if umichigan keeps losing the paragraphing, and the
end-of-line hyphens, and the quotemarks, and the em-dashes,
then high-quality word-recognition don't really mean jack shit,
because we're still gonna have to re-do all their work for 'em...
-bowerbird