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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)
Having gone through a couple of decades worth of technology conferences, a
familiar cycle occurs. For the first couple years, technology-related
conferences are attended by engineers and operations people. Only after the
technology has passed a couple of feasibility gates and begun to hit the
business cycle do sales and marketing people take over. Cloud is now
officially past the enginee... (more)
Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer
The talk at the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara was all about
enterprise cloud adoption. Is it real? Is it already happening? If so,
who’s doing it, which applications are they running and which clouds are
being tested?
To a large extent, cloud computing is a victim of its own somewhat
out-of-control hype cycle. Since so much has been written... (more)
Everyone knows that the longevity and ultimate success of a platform lies in
the developers willing to create on that platform.
Creating a healthy developer ecosystem in which both the developer and the
platform vendor can grow and prosper is very important. No one knows this
better than Microsoft. It has long been their mantra that “developers,
developers, developers” are the key to succe... (more)
SOA in the Cloud Expo
WSO2, the open source SOA company, today announced the launch of the WSO2
Cloud Platform. Available today, the new WSO2 Cloud Platform features a
family of WSO2 Cloud Virtual Machines; WSO2 Cloud Connectors for enabling
fast, secure cloud services; and the multi-tenant
WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service.
TIBCO Software is also working to offer a similar SOA platform in th... (more)
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