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WOCAR is an Optical Character Recognition Application (OCR). It converts scanned documents to text documents. The software can process documents written in English or in French. WOCAR can work with any scanner that supports the TWAIN interface. It can also process any bilevel TIFF image file. This application works on Windows 95 and Windows NT. And best of all...it's free! A dll of the OCR engine is also available at the site. The source of this program no longer is on the Internet and is unreachable. See also SimpleOCR.

A wealth of research papers and ocr product analysis can be found here.

Pointers to image recognition articles and source code can be found here.

A collection of public domain OCR software can be found here.

Image recognition source code is available here.

A Basic explanation of OCR can be found here.

A white paper about the technology of OCR from LD Technologies Inc.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as a Digitization Technology from the National Library of Canada.

Computerworld article about OCR.

An introduction to OCR.

Language and Media Processing Laboratory at the University of Maryland.

OCR FAQ.

OCR Resource List, includes links to non-english alphabet OCR.