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==========
Overview
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The recommended audience for this document are developers who want to
use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 with `Tesseract-OCR
<http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/>`_. If you simply want to *run*
`tesseract` or its various language training applications, then see the
`ReadMe <http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ReadMe>`_. You'll
find instructions there on how to download tesseract's Windows
installer.
|Tesseractocr| consists of:
+ `libtesseract` -- the static (or dynamic) library that does all the
actual work. As of February 2012 it consists of 260+ `C++` files
along with 290+ header files.
+ `tesseract.exe` -- the command-line OCR engine. It's built from a
single, small `C++` file that just calls functions in
`libtesseract`. There currently isn't very much documentation on how
to use `tesseract.exe`, but you can look at what's there in the
repository's `doc
<http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fdoc>`_
subdirectory.
+ Language packs -- needed by `tesseract.exe` in order to recognize
particular languages.
.. _training-applications:
+ Language training applications -- used to teach `tesseract.exe` new
languages. Each has their own (very brief) man page in the `doc
<http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fdoc>`_
subdirectory and include:
+ `ambiguous_words.exe` -- generate sets of words Tesseract is likely
to find ambiguous
+ `classifier_tester` -- tests a Tesseract character classifier on
data as formatted for training
+ `cntraining.exe` -- character normalization training
+ `combine_tessdata.exe` -- combine/extract/overwrite Tesseract data
+ `dawg2wordlist.exe` -- convert a Tesseract DAWG to a wordlist
+ `mftraining.exe` -- feature training
+ `shapeclustering.exe` -- shape clustering training
+ `unicharset_extractor.exe` -- extract unicharset from Tesseract
boxfiles
+ `wordlist2dawg.exe` -- convert a wordlist to a DAWG
Their use is described in the `TrainingTesseract3
<http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TrainingTesseract3>`_
Wiki page.
This document explains how to:
+ :doc:`Setup <setup>` the proper directory structure required to use
the supplied Visual Studio 2008 Solution
* :doc:`Build <building>` `libtesseract`, `tesseract.exe`, and the
training apps
* :doc:`Write <programming>` programs that link with `libtesseract`
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