OCRopus [SEP] license
OCRopus
OCRopus is a free document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) system released under the Apache License v2.0 with a very modular design using command-line interfaces.
OCRopus is developed under the lead of Thomas Breuel from the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Kaiserslautern, Germany and was sponsored by Google.
Description.
OCRopus was especially designed for use in high-volume digitization projects of books, such as Google Books, Internet Archive or libraries. A large number of languages and fonts are to be
text recognition in Google Book Search. Licensing under an open source license was made right from the start to facilitate collaboration between industrial and academic research. OCRopus has received further funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the BMBF.
The first alpha version 0.1 was released on 22 October 2007 and several pre-releases followed between December 2007 and May 2009 reaching a stable version 0.4.4 in March 2010. Originally, the software was developed in C++, Python and Lua with Jam as a build system. A complete refactoring of the