Technical papers describing various aspects of Tesseract
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An Overview of the Tesseract OCR Engine
Hybrid Page Layout Analysis via Tab-Stop Detection
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Adapting the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine for Multilingual OCR
©ACM, 2009. This is the authors’ version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multilingual OCR 2009, Barcelona, Spain July 25, 2009. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1577804
Other publications from Ray Smith
- Ray Smith Publications
- The extraction and recognition of text from multimedia document images by Smith, R.W. (Ph.D. thesis), 1987
- Slides from Tutorial on Tesseract presented at DAS2014
- Slides from Tutorial on Tesseract presented at DAS2016
Other
- Video PhotoTechEDU Day 11: Document Image Analysis with Leptonica
- Training Tesseract for Ancient Greek OCR by Nick White
- Shirorekha Chopping Integrated Tesseract OCR Engine for Enhanced Hindi Language Recognition by Nitin Mishra, C. Patvardhan, C. Vasantha Lakshmi, Sarika Singh
- Report on the comparison of Tesseract and ABBYY FineReader OCR engines by Heliński, Kmieciak, and Parkoła
- The hOCR Embedded OCR Workflow and Output Format (hOCR specification)
- Text Detection on Nokia N900 Using Stroke Width Transform (with source code)
- Generic Text Recognition using Long Short-Term Memory Networks - Ph.D. Thesis
- Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning
- Translation-Inspired OCR by Dmitriy Genzel, Ashok C. Popat, Nemanja Spasojevic, Michael Jahr, Andrew Senior, Eugene le, Frank … Keywords-Optical character recognition; statistical machine … (character) locations in Arabic, English, and Hindi PRAN-data examples.
- Developing Multilingual OCR and Handwriting Recognition at Google by Ashok Popat. Research Scientist, Google Inc. IAPR Summer School, Jaipur: Jan 23 2017.
- General-Purpose OCR Paragraph Identification by Graph Convolutional Neural Networks by Renshen Wang, Yasuhisa Fujii, Ashok C. Popat January 2021