Open Source Java OCR Software for Windows

DjVu++ is a user-friendly program that used to manipulate DjVu file formats such as eBooks with a penalty of editing features. The program introduce a free replacement for the property PDF format with similar resolution and smaller file size DjVu++ also support OCR to handle text in scanned books and images. The program shows good performance for English. In addition to the Arabic language to lead free and commercial software in this area. The main features of DjVu++ program are: o Manipulate DjVu files. o Support smaller size than PDF with the same performance. o DjVu++ supports two languages in the OCR technique (Arabic and English). o Read multiple documents at the same time with the new tabs feature. o DjVu++ supports multiple formats:  Convert PDF document into DjVu format with smaller file size and the same performance.  Convert DjVu into PDF format.  Combine images to a single DjVu document. Perform OCR operations on multiple image formats.

The DjVu Reference Library 3.5 was released by Lizardtech under the GNU General Public License version 2. DjVuLibre-3.5 was developed by Leon Bottou and others as a "Derived Work" of the DjVu Reference Library 3.5. As such, it is also subject to the GNU General Public License version 2. Several patents apply to two very specific aspects of DjVu and DjVuLibre. The patents cover a particular aspect of the ZP-coder (the arithmetic coder used in DjVu and implemented in libdjvu/ZPCodec.cpp) and the background masking technique used in the IW44 wavelet encoder (implemented in libdjvu/IW44EncodeCodec.cpp). Most patents are owned by AT&T. LizardTech has very broad rights to them and grants free and permanent licenses to them for the purpose of building GPL software with the DjVu Reference Library. The grant is materialized by two paragraphs in the headers of the DjVu Reference Library source files. Lizardtech also published an official statement about the open source.