Displaying items by tag: Optical character recognition

In his keynote speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, said that mobile was not the first platform for which Google developed any new application, and he staged impressive demonstrations of voice search, image search, and language translation combined with optical character recognition.

So, Corel has launched its latest version of WordPerfect Office. What have they done to make it better than Office 2007, better than the free Open Office, and better than web apps like Google Docs? Turns out there’s some key new features which are very attractive - but are they enough to make you switch – or even take notice?

Imagine a pocket-sized device that is able to turn the printed word on a page into speech. Imagine how it could change the lives of the vision and reading impaired. Imagine no more: it's a reality.