Tuesday, September 19, 2006
I have never had much success with OCR programs for the desktop, however the technology does seem to make a lot of sense for mobile devices where text input is a bit more of a chore.
"OCR, of course, is optical character recognition, a technique used to turn words on paper into words in digital format, for manipulating on computers and such. Well, a company called ABBYY, out of Southern California, has come up with an application that lets you take a picture of a set of text with your mobile phone and convert that picture into digital text."
The article includes a video, although it is tough to see how accurately it performed the conversion. If you are interested in checking it out you can click the link below.
"OCR, of course, is optical character recognition, a technique used to turn words on paper into words in digital format, for manipulating on computers and such. Well, a company called ABBYY, out of Southern California, has come up with an application that lets you take a picture of a set of text with your mobile phone and convert that picture into digital text."
The article includes a video, although it is tough to see how accurately it performed the conversion. If you are interested in checking it out you can click the link below.