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Re: Tesseract Is Junk. FOSS Has No OCR.

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From vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject Re: Tesseract Is Junk. FOSS Has No OCR.
Date 27 Aug 2025 04:20:19 GMT
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:01:46 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
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> Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is perhaps a critical necessity in
> today's digital world.
> 
> Google has contributed an OCR software called Tesseract to to the FOSS
> community.
> 
> I am sorry to have to say that, in my experience, Tesseract is junk.

You know tesseract has been in development since 1985, right?

You know it started at Hewlitt Packard, right?

You know that it has _two_ engines, which can be combined for
better results, right?

I didn't think so.

(FTR:  I've had good success with tesseract.)

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Tesseract Is Junk. FOSS Has No OCR. Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-08-26 19:01 +0000
  Re: Tesseract Is Junk. FOSS Has No OCR. vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-08-27 04:20 +0000
    Re: Tesseract Is Junk. FOSS Has No OCR. Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-08-27 12:29 +0000

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