An Overview of the Tesseract OCR Engine

Abstract

The Tesseract OCR engine, as was the HP Research Prototype in the UNLV Fourth Annual Test of OCR Accuracy[1], is described in a comprehensive overview. Emphasis is placed on aspects that are novel or at least unusual in an OCR engine, including in particular the line finding, features/classification methods, and the adaptive classifier.

Citation: An Overview of the Tesseract OCR Engine, Ray Smith, Proc. Ninth Int. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2007, pp. 629-633.

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