News tagged with optical character recognition

Holocaust historical data goes digital

(AP) -- The world's largest collection of Holocaust documents is going digital.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Use smartphone app to file taxes

You can make a restaurant reservation, check your bank balance, and shop online with your smartphone, and now you may be able to do your taxes, too.

Technology / Software

created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM and EU partner to enable digitization of historic European texts on massive scale

IBM and the EU have expanded their research collaboration, which now includes more than two-dozen national libraries, research institutes, universities, and companies across Europe to provide new technology that will enable ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Listen, watch, read -- computers search for meaning

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the first integrated semantic search platform that integrates text, video and audio. The system can 'watch' films, 'listen' to audio and 'read' text to find relevant responses ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Bionic glasses for poor vision

A set of glasses packed with technology normally seen in smartphones and games consoles is the main draw at one of the featured stands at this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Maltese-English Dictionary to be Digitized

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona linguist Adam Ussishkin has headed up an effort to update and digitize the Maltese-English dictionary of record. The new searchable database will enable scholars and ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Developing tiny cave camera and iris recognition technology for military, homeland security

Researchers are expanding new miniature camera technology for military and security uses so soldiers can track combatants in dark caves or urban alleys, and security officials can unobtrusively identify a subject from an ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

LookTel Mobile Software: Point & Hear Object ID App for Visually Impaired

LookTel, a smartphone app for the visually impaired, created by IPPLEX/iVisit, LLC has been chosen by International CTIA Wireless 2010 as one of the finalist for the E-tech Awards for Healthcare/Public Safety/Transportation ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

French technology upstart challenges Google

(AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help from American ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Google acquires Web security firm reCAPTCHA

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google announced on Wednesday that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that produces the squiggly words used by websites to guard against spam and fraud.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

IBM Researchers Develop Shield to Mask Sensitive On-Screen Information

IBM Research - Haifa has developed software that more efficiently and effectively hides sensitive or personal information that might otherwise appear on the computer screens of unauthorized personnel. It could prove particularly ...

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created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gesture recognition

A system that can recognize human gestures could provide a new way for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. A related system for the able bodied could also be used to make virtual worlds more realistic. ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Computer users are digitizing books quickly and accurately with Carnegie Mellon method

Millions of computer users collectively transcribe the equivalent of 160 books each day with better than 99 percent accuracy, despite the fact that few spend more than a few seconds on the task and that most do not realize ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 14, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (35) | comments 4

IBM Research Develops Technology to Aid Human Memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- To help people remember key facts, today, IBM unveiled a software technology created in its Research Labs that uses the images, sounds, and text recorded on everyday mobile devices to help ...

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created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0


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