In 1974 , Kurzweil founded Kurzweil Computer Products , Inc. .
In 1974 , Kurzweil led development of the first omni - font optical character recognition system , a computer program capable of recognizing text written in any normal font .
In 1974 , Kurzweil founded Kurzweil Computer Products , Inc. and led development of the first omni - font optical character recognition system , a computer program capable of recognizing text written in any normal font .