The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and ...
Inside Higher Ed

OCR Layoffs Estimated to Cost Up to $38M, GAO Says

The Education Department has reversed plans to lay off nearly 300 employees in its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released Monday ...
InfoWorld

Google’s open source OCR work

This is the sort of thing that makes me like Google again. Google just announced work on the open source OCRopus project, a document analysis and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system:The goal of ...
Crowdfund Insider

Justin Wickett, CEO of InformedIQ Explains How AI and Machine Learning Are Transforming the Way Auto Lenders Use OCR Tech

Lenders are increasingly frustrated with OCR (optical character recognition) solutions that are designed to read data off paystubs, but they’re only pulling text from the documents. They also aren’t ...