Tesseract OCR
Tesseract OCR is an optical character recognition engine consisting of a libtesseract library and tesseract command line program. The project supports the line recognition-oriented LSTM-based neural network engine, as well as the Tesseract 3 former character pattern recognition engine. With Unicode (UTF-8) support, it can recognize over 100 languages as it exits the box and produce outputs in various formats, such as plain text, hOCR, PDF, TSV.
tesseract-ocr · PDF & Document Processing
Common commercial products in this category: Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, Foxit PDF Editor
- Extract text from documents in various image formats to output plain text, PDF or hOCR format
- With Unicode support and over a hundred language options, you recognize texts in different languages
- Automating text recognition through the command line program
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Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
“Oh hey! (This might be the first time I've been paged on HN) I'm extremely excited by real, non-hype reasons to use LLMs, and I've also been frustrated that OCR isn't 100% accurate... I currently use Tesseract OCR in the context of UI automation of mobile apps. UI automation is…”
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