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Hosted by Ken Fallon on Friday, 2021-04-16 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tesseract, OCR, optical character recognition. 3.
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Tesseract (software)

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Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. It is free software, released under the Apache License. Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software in the 1980s, it was released as open source in 2005 and development has been sponsored by Google since 2006.
In 2006, Tesseract was considered one of the most accurate open-source OCR engines then available. 


$ tesseract -l eng english-page.jpg english
$ tesseract -l nld dutch-page.jpg dutch
$ ls
dutch.txt english.txt

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Comment #1 posted on 2022-02-13 14:56:47 by Ken Fallon

Yet another one

Load memory ....

Comment #2 posted on 2024-11-28 16:49:53 by SolusSpider - Peter Paterson

Tessaract OCR User

Ken, I was talking with Archer72 / Mark today - of course I was.
Mentioned that I use Tessaract OCR for my MissionAssist work, and he informed me of your show.

MissionAssist is a UK based charity.
I volunteer for them as a Digitisation Keyboarder, receiving PDF scans of Bibles and other books, from people groups all over the world, and typing the chapter text into a structured text file.
https://missionassist.org.uk/services/digitisation/bible-digitisation-project/

Tessaract is a wonderful tool that helps me with a lot of the process, obtaining a text file and then working directly on it.

I do plan talking about this work as an HPR show.
Given my current workload and my wife's medical needs, it will probably be in the New Year.

Comment #3 posted on 2024-11-29 08:33:07 by SolusSpider - Peter Paterson

Spelling of tesseract

Apologies for the misspelling of tesseract in my previous comment.

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