Google slips out open-source OCR engine
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Company helps dust off and release an old HP Labs optical character recognition engine.
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The OpenDocument Format (ODF) just keeps on getting stronger.  It is now an official ISO standard; there are numerous applications that support it, with varying degrees of fidelity, including Google's online word processor and spreadsheet;  there's an official Microsoft-funded plug-in for Microsoft Office that allows it to open and save ODF files, and a program that converts between ODF and the Chinese UOF XML office format; and the ODF community has largely sorted out issues of accessibility that threatened to de-rail its adoption by Massachusetts.
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Google took the wraps off its online presentation software on Monday night, rounding out its online office suite which now matches Microsoft Office in functionality.
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Open-source spam blocker gets legal makeover with switch to Apache license. Oh, and tech upgrades.
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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Search engine leader Google Inc. released free software Tuesday for organizing and finding the hundreds or thousands of digital photos often stored on a computer's hard drive.
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Blog: The Web and the desktop are increasingly blurring, as Adobe's Apollo project demonstrates. Unfortunately, open-source licensing remains in beta while we're about to go into production.
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Google Print, Google Print, Argh Argh Argh! Since I got back from Web Search University I have been buried in sites and resources to review.
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Google launched another new service this morning, this time to enable software developers to find snippets of public source code that they may integrate into their own projects. But with source code more algebraic than linguistic, is Google's ubiquitous query line the right tool for the job?
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Google is back with another project that will help users find priceless information on the Internet, via Googleâs Print Program.
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Search engine's free program fixes a glaring weakness in Windows: its woeful file-searching capabilities.-Rob Pegoraro
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Google gets into the Web registration business.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has updated its Google Code Search site for finding publicly available source code, adding greater coverage and improvements in ranking and access. Launched in October 2006, Google Code Search enables developers to locate source code on the Web, searching through billions of lines of code. "Today we made some updates to Code Search that will hopefully make it even easier to find the code you're looking for," said Google software engineer Aleksander Fedorynski in a blog entry Thursday about the improvements. Coverage capabilities now include indexing of individual files and code snippets from all over the Web, Google said. Previously, only complete archives, such as .zip,.tar, and repositories, including CVS and Subversion, were indexed. To improve ranking, Google has amended Code Search so class and method definitions now appear closer to the top of search results for certain queries. Also, users now can access Code Search through several international domains, including Brazil, China, France, and Russia. Right after the launch, Google's Code Search was criticized as a potential resource for hackers looking to find bugs, password information, and proprietary code.
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A look at the movement to convert Indian's voter lists to Unicode.
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Librepos is a point of sale application designed for touch screens, supports ESC/POS ticket printers, customer displays and barcode scanners. It is multiuser and has a great backoffice with a product entry form, reports and charts.   A lot of progress has been made since the previous release and there will be more progress the next release. A discussion in the forums explaining in detail the features included this release will start soon.  Changes:  * New logo. * Table state and receipts information now is shared between terminals. * New editor for Product-Warehouses information. * Enhanced security in the sales window. * Translations for fields in find dialogs and sort dialogs. * No more defaults for resources. Now all the resources are stored in the database. This is a change to the previous behavior . * The image editor now remembers the last opened folder. * Added to the image editor the images *.bmp. * Added message when the bar code entered does not correspond to any product found in the database. * Removed edition and visualization of the "Id" field in several tables. * Upgraded libraries: Jasperreports 2.0.1, Velocity 1.5, HSQLDB 1.8.0.8, JavaPOS 1.11 * Other little fixes.  You can download the binaries and sources in the following link:   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=127939
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Google on Wednesday began offering full downloads of out-of-copyright books in PDF format, enabling users to read at their own pace or use an ebook device. Currently being offered are a handful of classics and obscure titles in the public domain.
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Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world&#39;s most popular Internet search firm of breaking its own &quot;Don&#39;t be Evil&quot; code.