Tesseract OCR

Last Updated: 1/16/2017 12:00:00 AM
Site: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

Tesseract is a free raw OCR engine originally developed by HP Labs and now maintained by Google. It works with the Leptonica Image Processing Library, and is capable of reading a variety of image formats. It can convert images to text in over 40 languages.

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Creator(s): HP Labs, Google

Creator's Site: http://google.com

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Type of analysis: Uncategorized
Type of license: Free
Web Usable: Software you Download and Install
Ease of Use: Difficult
Usage: Widely Used
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Development sustained to present
TaDiRAH Methods: Uncategorized

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Bennett Kuwan Tchoh

Tesseract was used in these research abstracts https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/502/502.pdf

https://dh2018.adho.org/en/extracting-and-aligning-artist-names-in-digitized-art-historical-archives/

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