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# Tesseract OCR
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[](https://travis-ci.org/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zdenop/tesseract/)<br>
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[](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/tesseract-ocr)
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[](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/context:cpp)
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[](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/alerts)<br/>
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[](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/master/LICENSE)
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[](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/)
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## About
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This package contains an **OCR engine** - `libtesseract` and a **command line program** - `tesseract`.
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Tesseract 4 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused
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on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of
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Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns. Compatibility with
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Tesseract 3 is enabled by using the Legacy OCR Engine mode (--oem 0).
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It also needs traineddata files which support the legacy engine, for example
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those from the tessdata repository.
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The lead developer is Ray Smith. The maintainer is Zdenko Podobny.
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For a list of contributors see [AUTHORS](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/AUTHORS)
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and GitHub's log of [contributors](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/graphs/contributors).
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Tesseract has **unicode (UTF-8) support**, and can **recognize more than 100 languages** "out of the box".
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Tesseract supports **various output formats**: plain text, hOCR (HTML), PDF, invisible-text-only PDF, TSV. The master branch also has experimental support for ALTO (XML) output.
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You should note that in many cases, in order to get better OCR results, you'll need to **[improve the quality](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ImproveQuality) of the image** you are giving Tesseract.
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This project **does not include a GUI application**. If you need one, please see the [3rdParty](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/User-Projects-%E2%80%93-3rdParty) wiki page.
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Tesseract **can be trained to recognize other languages**. See [Tesseract Training](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/TrainingTesseract) for more information.
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## Brief history
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Tesseract was originally developed at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol and
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at Hewlett-Packard Co, Greeley Colorado between 1985 and 1994, with some
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more changes made in 1996 to port to Windows, and some C++izing in 1998.
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In 2005 Tesseract was open sourced by HP. Since 2006 it is developed by Google.
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The latest (LSTM based) stable version is **[4.1.0](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/4.1.0)**, released on July 7, 2019. Latest source code is available from [master branch on GitHub](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/tree/master). Open issues can be found in [issue tracker](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues), and [Planning wiki](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Planning).
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The latest 3.5 version is **[3.05.02](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/3.05.02)**, released on June 19, 2018. Latest source code for 3.05 is available from [3.05 branch on GitHub](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/tree/3.05). There is no development for this version, but it can be used for special cases (e.g. see [Regression of features from 3.0x](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Planning#regression-of-features-from-30x)).
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See **[Release Notes](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ReleaseNotes)** and **[Change Log](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/ChangeLog)** for more details of the releases.
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## Installing Tesseract
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You can either [Install Tesseract via pre-built binary package](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki) or [build it from source](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Compiling).
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Supported Compilers are:
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* GCC 4.8 and above
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* Clang 3.4 and above
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* MSVC 2015, 2017, 2019
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Other compilers might work, but are not officially supported.
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## Running Tesseract
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Basic **[command line usage](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Command-Line-Usage)**:
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tesseract imagename outputbase [-l lang] [--oem ocrenginemode] [--psm pagesegmode] [configfiles...]
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For more information about the various command line options use `tesseract --help` or `man tesseract`.
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Examples can be found in the [wiki](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Command-Line-Usage#simplest-invocation-to-ocr-an-image).
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## For developers
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Developers can use `libtesseract` [C](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/src/api/capi.h) or [C++](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/src/api/baseapi.h) API to build their own application. If you need bindings to `libtesseract` for other programming languages, please see the [wrapper](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/AddOns#tesseract-wrappers) section on AddOns wiki page.
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Documentation of Tesseract generated from source code by doxygen can be found on [tesseract-ocr.github.io](http://tesseract-ocr.github.io/).
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## Support
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Before you submit an issue, please review **[the guidelines for this repository](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)**.
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For support, first read the [Wiki](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki), particularly the [FAQ](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/FAQ) to see if your problem is addressed there. If not, search the [Tesseract user forum](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-ocr), the [Tesseract developer forum](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-dev) and [past issues](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues), and if you still can't find what you need, ask for support in the mailing-lists.
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Mailing-lists:
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* [tesseract-ocr](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-ocr) - For tesseract users.
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* [tesseract-dev](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-dev) - For tesseract developers.
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Please report an issue only for a **bug**, not for asking questions.
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## License
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The code in this repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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You may obtain a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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limitations under the License.
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**NOTE**: This software depends on other packages that may be licensed under different open source licenses.
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Tesseract uses [Leptonica library](http://leptonica.com/) which essentially
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uses a [BSD 2-clause license](http://leptonica.com/about-the-license.html).
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## Dependencies
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Tesseract uses [Leptonica library](https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica) for opening input images (e.g. not documents like pdf). It is suggested to use leptonica with build-in support for [zlib](https://zlib.net), [png](https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng) and [tiff](http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff) (for w multipage tiff).
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## Latest Version of README
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For the latest online version of the README.md see:
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https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/README.md
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