ocropus - The OCRopus(tm) open source document analysis and OCR system 3 Creative Ways To Visualize Urban Public Transportation As cities gradually realize that opening up their data isn’t dangerous, we’re starting to see creative applications for the information that not too long ago was siloed off by government agencies. The Urban Data Challenge (where I was a judge), asked entrants to use open transportation data sets from three cities--San Francisco, Zurich, and Geneva--to create beautiful and insightful visualizations. These were the three winners of the competition, put on by Swissnex, the Grey Area Foundation for the Arts, LIFT, and others. Dots on the bus This project, which won the grand prize ($5,000 from Fusepool to develop an app), was the most entertaining entry of the bunch. There are a lot of data sets behind this visualization, including bus timing, the number of people who get on and off at each stop as determined by on-board lasers, and the location of each stop and route. Transit Quality and Equity Frustration Index See all the other winners and honorable mentions on the Urban Data Challenge site.
Vidéos Buzz, Jeux Flash et Images sur Koreus.com ScanR - use camera phones for OCR scanR is a free service that lets you transform camera phone pictures into PDF documents. You can take a picture of a document, send it to scanR by email and in less than a minute you'll get a PDF file. If you save the file as text in Acrobat Reader, you'll have the text contained in the document. You can also use it for whiteboard images. scanR requires 1 megapixel cameras for whiteboard scanning and 2 megapixel cameras for document scanning. I tested this online OCR service with Sony Ericsson K750i and the results were pretty good. Related:Use Gmail to break PDF DRM A visual and interactive experiment on the Parisian underground network
Vidéos Buzz, Drôles, Insolites sur Spi0n.com Open-Source OCR Software, Sponsored by Google Google sponsors the development of an open-source OCR software at the IUPR research group. "OCRopus is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multi-lingual capabilities." "The goal of the project is to advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies, and to deliver a high quality OCR system suitable for document conversions, electronic libraries, vision impaired users, historical document analysis, and general desktop use," explains Thomas Breuel, who leads the project. The software is partly based on Tesseract, the best open source OCR engine available for now. While the project is expected to be released at the end of next year and will be used for Google's book scanning project, the team has some interesting applications in mind:
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Top 5 Free OCR Software Tools To Convert Images Into Text Quite frankly, I wish I knew about this simple way to use freely available OCR software back in my school days. Of course, we didn’t have camera mobile phones or inexpensive Digicams, but wouldn’t it have saved hours of copying notes! Ah, modern technology is wonderful; take a scanned image (or take a snap using a mobile camera/Digicam) and presto – OCR software extracts all the information from the image into easily editable text format. Optical character recognition (OCR) is a system of converting scanned printed/handwritten image files into its machine readable text format. Maybe you have already come across our previous How to Extract Text from Images (OCR) post and used JOCR, a a free OCR software tool. We will be looking at 5 free pieces of OCR software and to start off let’s see the overlooked two that are already installed on our systems. OCR Using Microsoft OneNote 2007 For the occasional basic OCR stuff, MS OneNote’s optical character recognition feature is a timesaver. SimpleOCR