Scanning documents on a smartphone is not something new and over the years we have witnessed a slew of apps with the promise of scanning documents. My personal favourite has been the Office Lens ...

Converting a printed page into accurate and editable text has long been one of the great challenges facing computer users. Advances have been made over the years, but the current professional optical ...

IRIS demoed their newest Optical Character Recognition (OCR) products at this week’s National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, TX. The IRISPen II is the first USB pen scanner to ...

Retail futurists have long said that RFID tags may one day replace barcodes on individual products, opening up faster check-out times and providing retailers with more accurate inventory records. But ...

A type of computer software designed to translate images of handwritten or typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text, or to translate pictures of characters into a ...