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Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. [5] It is free software , released under the Apache License . [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software in the 1980s, it was released as open source in 2005 and development was sponsored by Google in 2006.
Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable for OCR; Graphical interfaces to one or more OCR engines; Software development kits that are used to add OCR capabilities to other software (e.g. forms processing applications, document imaging management systems, e-discovery systems, records management solutions)
Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...
OCR technology is made available online as a service (WebOCR), in a cloud computing environment, as well as in mobile applications like real-time translation of foreign-language signs on a smartphone. [24] 2005 Application Software The free cross-platform OCR engine Tesseract is published by Hewlett Packard and the University of Nevada, Las ...
OCRFeeder is an optical character recognition suite for GNOME, which also supports virtually any command-line OCR engine, such as CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad and Tesseract.It converts paper documents to digital document files and can serve to make them accessible to visually impaired users.
Tesseract seems rather technically challenging to install/configure. FreeOCR is built on it, and may be more user-friendly for people who have the required Windows 2K/XP. Archivista Box is a complete document management solution Linux livecd that includes Tesseract.
Tesseract (software), an optical character recognition (OCR) engine Yamaha Tesseract , a concept 4-wheeled motorcycle Tesseract , an art installation at the California Institute of Technology
OCRopus is a free document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) system released under the Apache License v2.0 with a very modular design using command-line interfaces. OCRopus is developed under the lead of Thomas Breuel from the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Kaiserslautern, Germany and was sponsored by Google.