Tesseract

Initially developed by Hewlett-Packard (HP), and after by Google, Tesseract is an open source project that provides two different (yet related) things:

• an OCR engine (called libtesseract), available as a framework;
• a command line program (called tesseract), that allows performing a complete OCR process leveraging the features provided by the “libtesseract” framework.

Being developed in C and C++, Tesseract can be used on many different platforms. Prebuilt packages for supported platforms are provided. Unsurprisingly, many bindings to use libtesseract with a wide variety of programming languages have been developed as well. Different graphical OCR solutions that use tesseract “under the hood” to perform the OCR process are available too.

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Filed under:

• Assistive Technologies
• Accessibility and Linux
• Accessibility in Mac OS
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Accessibility and Microsoft Windows