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Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
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# Tesseract OCR [](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/tesseract-ocr) [](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/code-scanning) [](https://issues.oss-fuzz.com/issues?q=is:open%20title:tesseract-ocr) \ [](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/main/LICENSE) [](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/) ## Table of Contents * [Tesseract OCR](#tesseract-ocr) * [About](#about) * [Brief history](#brief-history) * [Installing Tesseract](#installing-tesseract) * [Running Tesseract](#running-tesseract) * [For developers](#for-developers) * [Support](#support) * [License](#license) * [Dependencies](#dependencies) * [Latest Version of README](#latest-version-of-readme) ## About This package contains an **OCR engine** - `libtesseract` and a **command line program** - `tesseract`. Tesseract 4 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based [OCR engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) which is focused on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns. Compatibility with Tesseract 3 is enabled by using the Legacy OCR Engine mode (--oem 0). It also needs [traineddata](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files.html) files which support the legacy engine, for example those from the [tessdata](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata) repository. Stefan Weil is the current lead developer. Ray Smith was the lead developer until 2017. The maintainer is Zdenko Podobny. For a list of contributors see [AUTHORS](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/main/AUTHORS) and GitHub's log of [contributors](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/graphs/contributors). Tesseract has **unicode (UTF-8) support**, and can **recognize [more than 100 languages](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files-in-different-versions.html)** "out of the box". Tesseract supports **[various image formats](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/InputFormats)** including PNG, JPEG and TIFF. Tesseract supports **various output formats**: plain text, hOCR (HTML), PDF, invisible-text-only PDF, TSV, ALTO and PAGE. You should note that in many cases, in order to get better OCR results, you'll need to **[improve the quality](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/ImproveQuality.html) of the image** you are giving Tesseract. This project **does not include a GUI application**. If you need one, please see the [3rdParty](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/User-Projects-%E2%80%93-3rdParty.html) documentation. Tesseract **can be trained to recognize other languages**. See [Tesseract Training](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Training-Tesseract.html) for more information. ## Brief history Tesseract was originally developed at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol UK and at Hewlett-Packard Co, Greeley Colorado USA between 1985 and 1994, with some more changes made in 1996 to port to Windows, and some C++izing in 1998. In 2005 Tesseract was open sourced by HP. From 2006 until August 2017 it was developed by Google. Major version 5 is the current stable version and started with release [5.0.0](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/5.0.0) on November 30, 2021. Newer minor versions and bugfix versions are available from [GitHub](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/). Latest source code is available from [main branch on GitHub](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/tree/main). Open issues can be found in [issue tracker](https://github.com/tesseract
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