news from bill janssen of PARC, that the ocr tesseract software continues to evolve, with active development from Google. this is open source work. via bookpeople. pb ------ Forwarded Message From: Bill Janssen Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:51:16 PST Those of us interested in OCR will want to keep an eye on http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/. From that Web page: ``We are planning on an alpha-release of the system in Q1. It's a technology preview that shows the architecture and is already quite useful...'' This is the follow-on to the Tesseract work that came out last year. ------ End of Forwarded Message