SecureJDMS is the attempt to develop a secure DMS, based on an RCP and (even untrusted) DB for data storage. For now, its all about managing scanned documents and searching them by content (using OCR). All data sent and stored will be strongly encrypted.
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.
JOcrad is a graphical frontend for GNU/Ocrad written in Java.
GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a feature extraction method.JOcrad supports italian and english languages, JPG,PNG and GIF images.
Joshi is a program that tries to recognize shapes on an image with a focus on OCR. It converts the image to vector graphics (polylines) and then tries to project these on stored vector graphics, calculating the best match.