Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image via Project Naptha.
LibreSSL is backed by OpenBSD and will be prepped for other platforms later. Now they’re working through a complete rewrite as apparently OpenSSL is just too too messy. Read the story here:OpenSSL code beyond repair, claims creator of “LibreSSL” fork | Ars Technica. read the rage and the coding diffs here on OpenSSL Rampage
This is an incredible story: The Silk Road 2.0 decided not to fold and has been repaying customers that lost their BTC by randomly assigning service costs BTC to duped customers instead of paying it out to staff. How Silk Road Bounced Back from Its Multimillion-Dollar Hack | Motherboard.
Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source OCR engine available. Combined with the Leptonica Image Processing Library it can read a wide variety of image formats and convert them to text in over 60 languages. It was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it Read more about tesseract-ocr – An OCR Engine for 60 languages[…]