tesseract

Tesseract is an optical character recognition (OCR) command line tool developed by Google. It is designed to read and extract text information from images and scanned documents. Tesseract supports over 100 languages, making it highly versatile and widely used. It can handle various image formats, such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Tesseract uses machine learning algorithms to recognize text patterns in images and convert them into editable text. In addition to plain text extraction, Tesseract can also retain font styles, font sizes, and other formatting details. It provides options for improving OCR accuracy through image preprocessing techniques like noise reduction, image binarization, and deskewing. Tesseract offers multiple output formats, including plain text, hOCR (HTML), PDF, and searchable PDF. It can be customized and trained with additional data to improve recognition accuracy for specific domains or languages. Tesseract is an open-source project with an active community, making it continuously updated and improved.