Optical Character Recognition -- typically the art of teaching a computer to read printed text (provided as scanned images).

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Three principal open-source engines:
   * GOCR [http://jocr.sf.net/] (appears to have a Tcl/Tk frontend)
   * Ocrad [http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html] (GNU)
   * Tesseract OCR [http://sf.net/projects/tesseract-ocr] (originally Hewlett-Packard, but now released as open source)




[[Recommended proprietary packages:
   * Vividata OCR Shop XTR Lite [http://www.vividata.com/index.html]
   * VueScan [http://www.hamrick.com/]
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[Category Handwriting Recognition]? |
[Category Human Language]? |
[Category Image Processing] |
[Category Word and Text Processing]
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