An Overview of the Tesseract OCR Engine

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICDAR
• Authors: R. Smith
• Keywords: Document Analysis, Fourth Annual Test, ICDAR 2007, OCR Engine, Tesseract OCR Engine