Tag: ocr

  • Unlocking table data using open source OCR

    This summer we were awarded a small research grant from NASA’s Technology Data and Innovation Division to investigate extracting structured information from scans of engineering documents, and we recently demoed our proof-of-concept app for the project to NASA’s Office of the CIO. Our previous work for the NASA Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA) Office used serverless…

  • Automatic Swarm of Ephemeral Servers Extract Text to Improve NASA Astronaut Safety

    V! Studios develops high volume solution for extracting text from scanned documents faster and cheaper for NASA’s Johnson Space Center by utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda serverless technology. V! Studios, a creative technologies company, has developed a new high-speed, low-cost cloud-based solution for optical character recognition (OCR) and text extraction. Standard OCR software extracts…