Tesseract open source OCR Engine

February 15, 2018February 9, 2018

Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine, available under the Apache 2.0 license. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract typed, handwritten or printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages.

Key Features :

The library provides optical character recognition (OCR) support for:
- TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP image formats
- Multi-page TIFF images
- PDF document format
Out-of-box support for multiple languages
Capability to train for new languages including German, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Hindi
Provides scripts to compile the code for a variety of targets environments
Provides capability to OCR from a variety of source documents including multi-page TIFF, images and PDF.

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Tesseract open source OCR Engine

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Tesseract OCR can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract typed, handwritten or printed text from images.

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