CoreTechX Unveils Its OCR System, Achieving State-of-the-Art Accuracy in Handwritten Arabic Recognition

CoreTechX’s OCR system has achieved record-breaking accuracy, moving the needle from experimental AI to mission-critical ...
GitHub

Android OCR Text Recognition Scanner – Optical Character Recognition for Android (ML Kit, Tesseract, Cloud Vision)

Whether you want to build a document scanner, digitize receipts, or add text recognition to your mobile app, this project is a perfect starting point. This project is provided for educational and ...

Tungsten Automation Announces General Availability of OmniPage Capture SDK 2025.3 for Linux

Tungsten Automation today announced the general availability of OmniPage Capture SDK 2025.3 for Linux, the latest release of its market-leading Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and ...
Reuters

AU calls for immediate revocation of Somaliland's recognition by Israel

NAIROBI, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The African Union's Political Affairs Peace and Security council called on Tuesday for the "immediate revocation" of Israel's recognition of Somaliland. Israeli Foreign ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta Is Developing a New AI Image and Video Model Code-Named ‘Mango’

AI tools like Google’s Veo 3 and Runway can now create strikingly realistic video. WSJ’s Joanna Stern and Jarrard Cole put them to the test in a film made almost entirely with AI. Watch the film and ...
TechCrunch

Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells

Dystopian or useful? Amazon’s Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Computers Are Getting Much Better at Image Recognition

Some computer vision programs have been thrown off by tricks such as manipulating the pixels in an image. MODIFIED FROM ISTOCK.COM / EYEEM MOBILE GMBH Anyone with a computer has been asked to “select ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...
Forbes

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. For anyone versed in the technical underpinnings of LLMs, this ...
Digital Trends

Microsoft AI debuts its Nano Banana rival, and it’s already a top text-to-image model

What’s happened? Microsoft AI has unveiled the slightly clunkily named MAI-Image-1, its in-house text-to-image system. The pitch is straightforward, generate useful pictures quickly, not flashy demos ...