The Common OCR Service Interface. COSI is an API that allows developpers to easily bring OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capabilities to image processing applications. COSI supports existing OCR tools such as Tesseract, GOCR or GNU Ocrad.
An image postprocessor for the DIY Book Scanner described on instructables.com and diybookscanner.org. Gets images ready for OCR or for PDF. Written in Java based on a partial port of the Leptonica image processing library.