Tesseract is an open source OCR or optical character recognition engine and command line program. OCR is a technology that allows for the recognition of text characters within a digital image. With the latest version of Tesseract, there is a greater focus on line recognition, however it still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine which recognizes character patterns.

Tesseract can recognize over 100 languages out-of-the-box, and can be trained to recognize other languages. It supports various output formats, including plain text, HTML, PDF and more. It also has unicode (UTF-8) support.

Features

  • OCR engine and command line program
  • Line recognition and character pattern recognition
  • Unicode (UTF-8) support
  • Recognizes more than 100 languages, and can be trained to recognize others
  • Supports various output formats

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License

Apache License V2.0

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  • Enjoy this project for my mission
  • Brilliant. Worked properly first time. great code.
  • very good OCR project!
  • wow, good OCR. The release files are very oldest than http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ I packed tesseract with gImageReader http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimagereader/
  • how to install in win Xp?
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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Image Recognition Software, C++ OCR Software

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2020-05-04