Friday, January 4th, 2008
Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text.
OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and machine vision. Though academic research in the field continues, the focus on OCR has shifted to implementation of proven techniques. Optical character recognition (using optical techniques such as mirrors and lenses) and digital character recognition (using scanners and computer algorithms) were originally considered separate fields. Because very few applications survive that use true optical techniques, the OCR term has now been broadened to include digital image processing as well.
Early systems required training (the provision of known samples of each character) to read a specific font. “Intelligent” systems with a high degree of recognition accuracy for most fonts are now common. Some systems are even capable of reproducing formatted output that closely approximates the original scanned page including images, columns and other non-textual components.
OCR software
* ABBYY FineReader OCR
* Adobe Acrobat
* GOCR
* Microsoft Office Document Imaging
* NovoDynamics VERUS
* Ocrad
* Ocropus
* OmniPage
* Readiris
* ReadSoft
* SimpleOCR
* SmartScore
* Tesseract (software)
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
They call this ‘The Next Generation-Generation’ digital cameras. Now you can take optimised, high-quality movies easily upload them directly to YouTube. This is a part from the press release:
| DOVER, NJ, JULY 10, 2007 – Casio, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced today the release of two new digital cameras with the cutting-edge EXILIM Engine 2.0 image processing module. In conjunction with the release of these cameras, Casio, Inc. announced today their agreement with YouTube to include a unique YouTube Capture mode and bundle software to provide ideal settings for recording, storing and uploading video on the company’s newest EXILIM digital cameras – EX-S880 and EX-Z77. This agreement represents an effort by Casio, Inc. to directly engage the YouTube community by simplifying the process of creating and sharing videos.
The increased popularity of video sharing Web sites such as YouTube offers a great opportunity for innovation, said John Homlish, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Casio, Inc. We recognized that there was a demand for an easier way to upload high-quality video and are thrilled to be the first digital camera company to be able to offer a solution for consumers.
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3 Innovative Features:
- H.264 High Quality Movies - 1.5 hours of recorded movies with 1GB SD Card
- Movie Compression Technology - Upload directly to youtube in 2 steps, connect to a PC and upload.
- Face Detection - Capture the face you focus on!
Casio also produces great cameras.
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