Suppose you wanted to digitize the novel Moby Dick overnight. You could stay up all night typing and still not finish. Or you could use a high-end scanner and in minutes scan all of author Herman ...

Adobe today announced the launch of Adobe Scan, a new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) app that's able to scan documents and convert printed text into digital text in a matter of seconds. Unlike ...

Whether it’s auto-extracting information from a scanned receipt for an expense report or translating a foreign language using your phone’s camera, optical character recognition (OCR) technology can ...

The version for iPhones now lets you use the device's camera to translate signs, menus and the like, while the version for Android devices can work offline. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...