Google has covered quite a lot of turf during the march toward its goal of making every last bit of the world's information searchable. But considering all the ground that has yet to be ...

Google has announced that it "quietly released" a veteran optical character recognition (OCR) engine as open source a few months ago. The engine, Tesseract, was developed between 1985 and 1995 by HP ...

Google has plans to help the world convert its mountains of paper records into a Borg like hive mind, using an optical character recognition program called Tesseract. Tesseract was originally ...