In computer software, Tesseract is a free optical character recognition engine. It was originally developed as proprietary software at Hewlett-Packard between 1985 until 1995. After ten years without any development taking place, Hewlett Packard and UNLV released it as open source in 2005. Tesseract is currently developed by Google and released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Tesseract is considered one of the most accurate free software O...
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In computer software, Tesseract is a free optical character recognition engine. It was originally developed as proprietary software at Hewlett-Packard between 1985 until 1995. After ten years without any development taking place, Hewlett Packard and UNLV released it as open source in 2005. Tesseract is currently developed by Google and released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Tesseract is considered one of the most accurate free software OCR engines currently available.
Tesseract is a raw OCR engine. It has no document layout analysis, no output formatting, and no graphical user interface. The sole format it processes is a TIFF image of a single column, from which it creates text. TIFF compression is not supported unless libtiff is installed. It can detect whether text is monospaced or proportional. The engine was in the top 3 in terms of character accuracy in 1995. It compiles and runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, however, due to limited resources only Windows and Ubuntu...
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