Tesseract OCR

Tesseract OCR is a premium OCR engine that was initially developed by HP between 1985 and 1995. At the time, it was one of the top three engines evaluated by UNLV. In 2005, HP and UNLV released the open-source version of the engine. With the Tesseract OCR source code, users can extract text from binary, grey, or color images.

Users of Tesseract OCR can also enjoy a built-in TIFF reader that can read uncompressed TIFF images. For users who require libtiff, it can be easily added to read compressed images. The developers routinely test the software on numerous platforms, including Ubuntu 6.06 (x86/32, x86/64), Ubuntu 6.10 (x86/32, x86/64), and Windows (x86/32).

Although Tesseract OCR is a versatile application that supports various platforms and Linux distributions, such as recent Linux distributions (x86/32, x86/64) and Mac OS X (x86, PPC), the development team lacks the resources to examine them regularly. Users who want to support other languages or platforms can contact Ray Smith to get involved.

Overall, Tesseract OCR is a reliable and efficient OCR engine with features that cater to both novices and experienced users.