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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)

Google Chrome OS : The Next Wave

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)

The Web-Based World: In Praise of Google, iPhone, Twitter and Facebook

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)

Review of 2008: A Developer's Perspective

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)

XML Processing with Oracle JDeveloper 11g : Book Review

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)