Open Source Journal
After testing the FineReader, OmniPage, ReadIRIS, and SimpleOCR, Aspire,
Tesseract….it is evident that ABBYY FineReader 9 is the best overall value,
while ReadIRIS is the best OCR software for under $150.
The main features that differentiate OCR software are:
Character recognition accuracy Page layout reconstruction accuracy Support
for languages Support for searchable PDF output Speed User interface API /
SDK Support / Consulting Stability of the engine when processing large
documents
Following are some of the Softwares that I played with and compared.
SimpleOCR SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of
thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for
developers to use in their custom applications. If ... (more)
Some of my random observations and rants about BAD managers and bosses…
Motivation : Manager thinks that every employee has the motivation and he
need not do anything. This is a typical problem i see in the managers who
grow up the ladder from the technical streams. These manager’s seldom
believe that employees need to be motivated to do their best and not all
“jobs” are interesting.
Don... (more)
One of my close friend is a professor in Rajagiri Engineering College for
Computer Science and got me introduced to the head of the Department. This
engineering college conducts guest lectures from variety of technology
verticals and they requested me to have a Eclipse lecture session. After a
lot of initial planning we finally started a 5 hour series of lectures on
Eclipse (Eclipse cour... (more)
During the start of my career as a Software Engineer, my first assignment was
to maintain a COBOL system that used to transact approximately 5000 records
per hour. It was very huge and challenging system with web and AS 400 system
integration. During the start of the career, the general idea for me as a
Computer Engineering student was to build software framework and systems with
fancy p... (more)
Suresh Krishna's Blog
The year that's just ended was a terrific one for the proliferation of new
technologies and frameworks. I have been hearing a lot about the following
technologies in the year 2008: mashups, cloud computing, domain modeling,
Eclipse - especially Equinox, Single Sourcing, and EclipseLink.
Mashups : JackBe is an Enterprise Mashup software company and has the series
of p... (more)
Suresh Krishna is in Oracle's Utilities division, based in San Francisco. His primary focus is on frameworks and tools. He currently blogs at 
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