Google today acquired reCAPTCHA, a tiny firm originally started as a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. CAPTCHAs are those funny little stretched out text images ...

I'm using really old CPU power right now. I'd like something that's faster in general, and one thing in particular I'd like to speed up is my text scanning and OCR capabilities in Abbyy Finereader. I ...

I own a ScanSnap S1300i scanner, but I’m not sure why anymore. I used to scan paper documents and store them on my Mac. I’d OCR the scans, so they would be text searchable, and I used Hazel rules to ...

Acrobat Professional has OCR capabilities that allow you to save scanned documents in Rich text format or as Microsoft Word Documents, both Doc and Docx. There may be an instance when you open the ...

Pixter, my favorite text-scanning OCR app for the iPhone, is now available for the iPad. And v2.0 isn’t just now ready (at last) for the retina displays of the iPhone and the iPad, but it sports a ...