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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)
I was happy to see the news that Google announced the Chrome based OS. Soon
after a week of my recent blog on Google and the way it transformed every
ones life, i was pretty excited to see this announcement. I am particularly
happy that Google is entering into the Operating System market and i believe
that they will do justification to what they claim.
For many the announcement has been g... (more)
I would not have written this blog in the year 2000 and by now I am highly
opinionated towards Google, of course in a good way. During my graduation
years (1996-2000), I used Rediff and Yahoo! search for my college projects,
and ACM seminars. In the year 1996/1998, Google was known but to very few
people. But nowadays Google is not just an Internet search company but a
worldwide phenomen... (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)
Oracle XML Developer Kit (XDK) is a set of components, tools and utilities in
Java which is available in Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server and on
OTN that eases the task of building and deploying XML-enabled applications
with a commercial redistribution license. XDK has several useful components
such as XML Parsers, XSLT Processors, XSLT VM, XML Schema Processors, XML
Java Beans... (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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