Free OCR

Tesseract OCR has been released as Open Source. I tested it on some stuff we have. It did slightly worse than the best engine I know of, TOCR. In its defense, it did detect a couple characters correctly that even TOCR did not. TOCR is available from Transym for an amazingly low price. See the […]

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Persistence of a Desk

I heard this excellent analogy to explain RAM in computers a long time. It really stuck with me and I’ve used this analogy many times to make the concept easier to understand. My brother also remembered this and wrote about it in Persistence of a Desk. The link above is dead, so here is the […]

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