CuneiForm (software)
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| CuneiForm | |
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| Design by | Cognitive Technologies |
| Developed by | Cognitive Technologies |
| Latest release | 12 / December 12, 2007 |
| Preview release | sources / April 2, 2008 |
| OS | Windows |
| Genre | Optical character recognition |
| License | Freeware/BSD licenses |
| Website | http://www.cuneiform.ru/ |
In computer software, CuneiForm is an OCR tool. It was originally developed at Cognitive Technologies and after few years with no development released as freeware on December 12, 2007. The kernel of OCR engine is released as open source since the beginning of April of 2008[1].
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[edit] Features
CuneiForm is the OmniFont system. Algorithms used in CuneiForm come from the rules of writing of letters, from their topology, and do not require definition of patterns or teaching. CuneiForm recognizes any printing fonts (scanned books, newspapers, magazines, printings from laser and dot-matrix printers, texts from typewriters, etc). It does not recognize handwritten text and decorative fonts (like gothic or pseudo-handwritten). There are special settings in CuneiForm for recognition of texts from dot-matrix printer and 200x100 DPI resolution faxes.
CuneiForm can save text formatting and recognizes complicated tables of any structure.
It recognizes Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Russian-English bilingual, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian texts.
CuneiForm can save recognized text in RTF, HTML or text format. It can also pass text to Word text processor or Excel spreadsheet.
[edit] History
Once leader of OCR software in Russia, CuneiForm was in competition with Abbyy Fine Reader.
[edit] Future
Cognitive Technologies started a program to make OCR available for all users. Its first step was releasing CuneiForm as freeware.
The next step will be launching of free on-line recognition service on www.cuneiform.ru website till the end of January, 2008. About 10 000 recognitions per day using this service is planned by the end of 2008.
Then from the beginning of April, 2008 Cognitive Technologies plans to start developing a new version of the software as an investor and coordinator of the project. Developers decided to choose the BSD license for kernel release to take into account all legal and technical nuances, but the whole program or its separate modules may be released later upon GPL[2].
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