Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source OCR engine available. Combined with the Leptonica Image Processing Library it can read a wide variety of p_w_picpath formats and convert them to text in over 60 languages. It was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but since then it has been improved extensively by Google. It is released under the Apache License 2.0.


Supported Platforms

Tesseract works on Linux, Windows (with VC++ Express or CygWin) and Mac OSX. See the ReadMe for more details and install instructions. It can also be compiled for other platforms, including Android and the iPhone, though these are not as well tested platforms. See also the AddOnspage for other projects using Tesseract on various platforms.

If you're interested in supporting other platforms or languages, please get in touch with Ray Smith or the Developers.

A Note about Downloads

With the discontinuation of downloads at code.google.com, new source downloads will be posted to GoogleDrive. Other download folders will be setup as new files are uploaded, and the original Downloads page will go away. During the transition, other downloads can still be found at theOld Downloads page.

Roadmap

Version 3.03 release candidate is now available (source only so far) for download and contains many new features. (See the ReleaseNotes for a full list.) Please check out the ReadMe before going to Downloads as you need more than one file. Even the windows executables tarball is incomplete as language files are required. Most notable new features:

  • PDF output.

  • New Renderer for extracting detailed recognition information at a document level.

Version 3.03 ships with recent Linux distributions such as Ubuntu 14.04.

Version 3.02 ships with Ubuntu 12.04

Core Developers

The core developer on the project is Ray Smith (theraysmith).

In related work, Thomas Breuel (tmbdev) and Ilya Mezhirov (mezhirov) work on the OCRopus project, which also provides layout analysis and statistical language modeling.

Most of the work on Tesseract is sponsored by Google.


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star_off.gifDownloadtesseract-ocr-3.02.grc.tar.gzAncient Greek Language data for Tesseract 3.02.02Apr 2013Apr 20133.3 MB20922
star_off.gifDownloadtesseract-ocr-3.02.epo_alt.tar.gzEsperanto alternative language data for Tesseract 3.02Nov 2012Nov 20121.4 MB6196
star_off.gifDownloadtesseract-3.02.02-win32-lib-include-dirs.zipVC++ libraries of Tesseract OCR 3.02.02 (32bit) FeaturedNov 2012Nov 201228.0 MB55968
star_off.gifDownloadtesseract-ocr-setup-3.02.02.exeWindows installer of tesseract-ocr 3.02.02 (including English language data) FeaturedNov 2012Nov 201212.9 MB138286
star_off.gifDownloadtesseract-ocr-3.02.02.tar.gzTesseract OCR 3.02.02 Source FeaturedNov 2012Nov 20123.7 MB100480
star_off.gifDownloadtesseract-ocr-3.02.02-doc-html.tar.gzTesseract 3.02.02 html doc FeaturedNov 2012Nov 201210.1 MB51840
star_off.gifDownloadtesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gzEnglish language data for Tesseract 3.02Oct 2012Oct 201212.1 MB81418