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Do-it-yourself OCR with Perl modules [pdf] (perlmeister.com)
65 points by DanBC on April 13, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



OCR with Perl is pretty old. People who frequent perlmonks get a kick out of trying to implement their own home-brew reader. For instance: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=124732


I didn't realize how old that thread was until I encountered this comment:

"Your 1st suggestion is pretty much what Altavista uses for basic search engine submissions."





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