an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster, local cache, prefetching, data compression. Currently a Google Labs product. (probably good for very slow connections and as a general proxy)
document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multi-lingual capabilities. The OCRopus engine is based on two research projects: a high-performance handwriting recognizer developed in the mid-90's and deployed by the US Census bureau, and novel high-performance layout analysis methods. OCRopus is development is sponsored by Google and is initially intended for high-throughput, high-volume document conversion efforts.