Talk:Tesseract (software)

Not quite free software?
Although most of Tesseract is free software under the Apache License v2.0, the Aspirin neural network engine may not be. I've no idea if that license is free. I might email the FSF and ask - David Gerard 20:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * It seems Aspirin was removed in v. 1.02. Rwxrwxrwx 18:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I finally got email back from the FSF - they asked Google about that bit of the licence and Google apparently went "oops" :-) - David Gerard 16:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

User-friendly versions
Tesseract seems rather technically challenging to install/configure. FreeOCR is built on it, and may be more user-friendly for people who have the required Windows 2K/XP. Archivista Box is a complete document management solution Linux livecd that includes Tesseract.  The iso download is here:  Do any other livecds include Tesseract? Does anyone make it available as on online tool? It is odd that this is a google project, but they aren't making it available in readily usable forms. -69.87.204.80 20:34, 2 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Tesseract is available on the Ubuntu repositories via the Synaptic package manager. It is therefore very easy to install, just a matter of checking a couple of boxes. Using it from the command line is also very simple as described in the Ubuntu Documentation - Ahunt (talk) 12:31, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Userbox
If you use Tesseract, please feel free to put this userbox on your user page!

- Ahunt (talk) 12:20, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Formats
I've just tried to scan a file on Ubuntu. I got this output:

screenshot.bmp: Not a TIFF or MDI file, bad magic number 19778 (0x4d42).

It seems that Tesseract wants a TIFF, or Microsoft's proprietary version of TIFF. No BMP. That contradicts the article. — Chameleon 23:53, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * You are quite right: the article is wrong and the Ubuntu wiki is right. I will fix the article. If you use ".tif" (and only that extension) it works really well. - Ahunt (talk) 00:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Spell checking?
A spell checker is not integrated, it seems.-- Matthead Discuß   13:02, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * No it isn't. - Ahunt (talk) 14:50, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * BTW, thank you very very much for replacing the link to a web page explaining how to turn on the hOCR feature with a "Citation needed". This will improve the article and the reliability of wikipedia a lot. Keep up your good work. -- Matthead Discuß   18:10, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * And you should read WP:CIVIL because sarcasm like that isn't civil. You should also have a read of WP:SPS where it says: "Anyone can create a personal web page or pay to have a book published, then claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason, self-published media, such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs, Internet forum postings, and tweets, are largely not acceptable as sources." If you can find a proper ref for that feature then great, otherwise the wording will be removed from the article as explained at WP:V, which says "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth; that is, whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." - Ahunt (talk) 18:25, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for making Wikipedia such a nice place. Please go ahead and remove the offending gibberish of mine. -- Matthead Discuß   19:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Why don't you drop the incivility and find a ref for your text instead. I have done a search, but haven't found one yet. - Ahunt (talk) 20:01, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Had to go through the Tesseract Issues Logs but I found the whole history of it there and added it as a ref. It is a primary source, though so it would be ideal to have a reliable third party ref as well. - Ahunt (talk) 20:12, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Should the reference to FreeOCR be removed ?
Should the reference to FreeOCR be removed from the article on Tesseract (software) ?

The user comments section under URL:

http://download.cnet.com/FreeOCR/3000-10743_4-10717191.html

emphatically identify FreeOCR as sneakware.

Please note: the intial download of FreeOCR is only a download of an installer; the installer itself passes virus scans, but then the installer goes on to download the bulk of the product. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.94.104.84 (talk) 20:09, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Well there is a redirect from FreeOCR to this article, so it may be smarter to just tell the whole story instead. - Ahunt (talk) 20:57, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Someone braver than I might want to check but currently (April 2018) the FreeOCR download is about 10 megabytes and the download page seems to be more reputable than before, so maybe things have changed.

or maybe not :) Someone (someone else) should try it out and see .... 116.231.75.71 (talk) 11:47, 15 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Oddly FreeOCR now redirects here to this article, but is not mentioned on the page. I think that redirect needs to be deleted. - Ahunt (talk) 12:46, 15 April 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅ - Ahunt (talk) 12:49, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

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one of the most accurate open-source OCR ??
Tesseract is considered one of the most accurate open-source OCR engines currently available.

The two references given are 6 and 9 years old. Are there any newer references? Otherwise the statement seems to be a little pretentious. --Dichter (talk) 13:09, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The refs are still valid, but I think it should be dated and I will add that. See what you think. - Ahunt (talk) 13:39, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Ad hoc logo?
Does anybody have an official Tesseract page that uses the image that is listed as the logo here? The original URL for the image points to a consulting company that seems only tenuously related to Tesseract (though I didn't delve). I did an image search for the displayed image and only found this page and a few blog entries that likely cut/pasted from here. I think we should either post a citation to an official Tesseract page for the logo or cut it. B k (talk) 19:50, 30 January 2020 (UTC)