Suppose you wanted to digitize the novel Moby Dick overnight. You could stay up all night typing and still not finish. Or you could use a high-end scanner and in minutes scan all of author Herman ...

OSNABRUECK, GERMANY - 06 May: A stack of legal documents sit on a desk in the courtroom on the opening day of the trial of two engineers for their role in the crash of the Transrapid maglev train in ...

Computer vision and image recognition are terms that are often used synonymously, but the former encompasses more than just analyzing pictures. That’s because, even for humans, “seeing” also involves ...

Working with text on your computer offers a range of possibilities in searching and editing that simply aren't available with hard copy text. Check out these five text recognition tools to get your ...

Recap: Google Photos arrived in mid-2015 as a photo backup service that relies heavily on artificial intelligence and machine learning. As of last month, the service passed the one billion user mark, ...

Glasses for the blind might sound like an odd idea, given the traditional purpose of glasses and the issue of vision impairment. However, eighth-grade student [Akhil Nagori] built these glasses with ...

Converting a printed page into accurate and editable text has long been one of the great challenges facing computer users. Advances have been made over the years, but the current professional optical ...

A type of computer software designed to translate images of handwritten or typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text, or to translate pictures of characters into a ...