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Google Docs OCR in 34 languages (googledocs.blogspot.com)
19 points by JarekS on Feb 28, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


I don't know what they're using, but I hope it gets better soon. Particularly with Asian character sets it's pretty hit or miss. Then put the result through Google Translate and... wow (not in a good way). Love the concept, just hope there's a 2.0 in the near future!


I was very disappointed in my results:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=17-AYllk3J2SRcIzHKpf...

Does this image have a resolution or a font problem?


Any idea if google is uing using http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ to do this?

I was under the impression that was what they used for the book scanning project.


Maybe they're using this: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/


I wonder how long it'll take them to implement automatic language detection like what we see in Google Translate.


Is there an API for this?




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